CAJPA supports managed competition approach with a system of regional Joint Powers Authorities that will “pool” employers/employees to enable cost control through managed care and group purchase of health care and self-administered PPO plans. These Joint Powers Authorities, in CAJPA’s view, encourage a more competitive market system and ultimately will prove to be more efficient than a regulatory approach.

 

CAJPA Supports:

 

• The use of cost containment procedures. 
• Legislation to help avoid the duplication of expensive services within a geographical area (MRI, CT scanners, linear accelerators). 
• Expanding the universal billing concept (already available including electronic billing of inpatient hospital bills). 
• Legislation against drug company rebates to providers (conflict of interest). 
• Legislation against direct consumer advertising of prescriptions and supports the American Medical Association’s opposition to this advertising.

CAJPA Opposes:

 

• Employer mandated health coverage. 
• Any significant increase in governmental bureaucracy. 
• New or expanded federal/state health benefits entitlement programs. 
• Mandated coverage that specifies coverage and benefits to be included in health plans or policies.

(2007)