Healthcare

The rising cost of health care is our members’ most significant cost of doing business concern. Health care costs are a significant factor in the competitiveness of Wisconsin business. We must focus our cost containment efforts on re-engaging consumers in health care decisions, improving quality and reducing unnecessary and/or inappropriate treatment.

If national health care reform leads to increased taxes for Wisconsin’s employers, those new costs must be offset by reforms here at home.  We must look for reforms that reduce the high cost of health care in Wisconsin, including mandate and tax relief, and more efficient, technologically advanced delivery of health care service. We must encourage the growth of consumer-oriented options such as Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs). When considering health care reforms proposal in Washington, our representatives need to remember that you can’t make something more affordable buy making it more expensive.

Today, we have the opportunity to create a health care system for the future – building on what works and fixing what’s broken.