Join our Campaign to bring about a health care system that puts patients first. Find out how you can get involved.
Learn how you can call the shots. Get tools and information you can trust to help you manage your health care.
Make your voice heard in the fight for effective and affordable health care.
Welcome to the National Health Council
The National Health Council (NHC) provides a voice for the millions of people with chronic diseases and disabilities and their family caregivers. The NHC is currently urging people across the country to tell elected officials that we want health care reform legislation passed this year that will
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Cover everyone
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Curb costs responsibly
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Abolish exclusions for pre-existing conditions
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Eliminate lifetime caps on benefits
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Ensure access to long-term and end-of-life care
- NHC letter urging Congress to keep working towards passing meaningful health reform that supports the NHC’s Five Principles (January 20, 2010)
- Letter supporting elimination of ALL limits on benefit coverage and the elimination of preexisting condition exclusions with waiting periods(January 14, 2010)
- NHC letter to Congress supporting health care legislation that benefits people with chronic conditions(January 13, 2009)
- NHC urges Congress to end the two year wait period for Medicare (January 11, 2010)
- Letter urging Congress to pass health care legislation prohibiting lifetime and annual benefits limits in all health insurance plans (January 8, 2010)
- Letter to urge Senate to reject the provision allowing annual caps on benefits (December 15, 2009)
- NHC letter to support Senator Specter’s amendment establishing a Cures Acceleration Network (CAN) facilitating development and approval of innovative high need cures (December 15, 2009)
- NHC letter continuing support of the efforts of Congress to enact meaningful health care reform benefiting millions of people living with chronic conditions (December 9, 2009)
- improve the health of all people
- increase support for health research
- strengthen the community of patient advocacy organizations
We believe that you deserve the kind of health care that puts your needs first.
Join the Campaign to Put Patients First
Managing a long-term disease or disability can be very lonely. But it doesn’t have to be. The National Health Council can connect you with a powerful, vocal community of patients working to make health care better. Our Campaign to Put Patients First brings together more than 133 million people represented by the NHC. It’s free and easy to join. Click here to get involved.
Sign Our Petition
Send a message to the President and Congress. Let them know that you want effective and affordable health care – health care that meets your personal needs and goals. Click here to sign our petition.
Share Your Story
Add your voice to the growing number of patients who are fighting for better health care. You can help put a human face on the dry facts and figures in the health care debate. By sharing your personal story, you can let the policy makers know about the daily struggle to cope with a long-term disease or disability. Click here to find out how.
