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CAHP PRESS RELEASES & POLICY DOCUMENTS

2008 Policy Documents

• Policy Statement - Never Events
• Fact Sheet - The High Cost of Mandates
• The Rising Cost of Health Care: Causes
• The Rising Cost of Health Care: Solutions
• Fact Sheet - Employee Health Benefits Survey
• Fact Sheet - Hospital Costs Study
• Fact Sheet - Medi-Cal Proposed Cuts
• Fact Sheet - Proposition 58 "Declaration of Fiscal Emergency"
• Issue Brief - California's Individual Market
• Issue Brief - Rising Health Care Costs (CMS Projections)

2008 Press Releases

• April 14, 2008: Legislation Mandating Different Health Benefits to Increase Costs
  by $2.7 Billion
• January 10, 2008: Response to Proposed Medi-Cal Budget Cuts: Statement from Christopher Ohman, President/CEO, California Association of Health Plans (pdf)
  

2007 Press Releases

• October 26, 2007: California Health Plans Assist Californians Affected by Southern California Firestorms (pdf)
  
• October 23, 2007: Health Plan Association Calls for Ban on "Balance Billing" (pdf)
• Balance Billing Fact Sheet (pdf)
• September 11, 2007: Statement on Special Legislative Session on Health Care From CAHP President and CEO Chris Ohman (pdf)
  
• January 17, 2007: Health Plan Association Names New Vice President of Communications (pdf)
  

2005--2006 Press Release Archive