Health Care Committee
 AIM’s Health Care Committee is
by invitation, a 60-plus group of AIM members focused on legislative and regulatory issues affecting the cost, quality
and accessibility of health insurance in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts. The group assists AIM in developing its
pro-business legislative agenda and works to defeat legislation offered
by others that would be counter-productive to health care quality,
harmful to the business climate, costly to the businesses located here
or complicated to comply with or administer.
Members
The Health Care Committee is comprised of benefit managers,
human resource professionals, public policy analysts and representatives
from provider organizations, health insurers and pharmaceutical
companies.
Format
The Committee meets five times a year. An expert in
health care or a public official in the health care arena, such as the
Chair of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, addresses the
group discussing current health care or insurance legislation or other
relevant matters, usually with a lively give and take on questions and
answers. This presentation is followed by a discussion among
members about existing or potential issues the committee can address
collectively, strategy for moving the agenda forward, a legislative
update by AIM staff and other relevant business.
Issues
During the past legislative session, AIM advocated
successfully for management reforms to the uncompensated care pool and
for more transparency in the health care system in terms of provider
performance and insurance costs. AIM partnered with the
Massachusetts Healthcare Purchaser Group and Patient Choice to introduce
the concept of tiered networks into our health care delivery system so
that employers and employees would have lower cost insurance
options. AIM fought legislation to undo the small group
insurance reforms and successfully amended a ballot initiative to make
health care a constitutional right by ensuring voters will have the
final say in any plan put forth by the Legislature.
AIM Committee Staff
Eileen P. McAnneny,
Esq. staffs the Health Care Committee and has been
with AIM since 1998. She is one of two primary lobbyists for
AIM on Beacon Hill. In addition to covering health
care issues, Eileen is responsible for taxation policy at
AIM Prior to joining AIM, Eileen served as counsel to the
Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Taxation for almost four
years.
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