Press Releases
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Nation's Leading Health Care Providers and Unions to Share Solutions with Congressional Leaders for Health Care Crisis
November 05, 2008
As the national call to find a solution to America's broken healthcare system emerges as a key driver in yesterday's election of Barack Obama and a slate of Congressional seats, the nation's largest joint labor-management healthcare coalition released a report today on how they are tackling the most expensive problem in our nation's healthcare system: the escalating social, economic, and individual costs of treating and managing chronic disease.
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Statement from the Partnership for Quality Care Regarding Renewal of Massachusetts Medicaid Waiver
October 01, 2008
The Partnership for Quality Care applauds CMS and Governor Deval Patrick for their support of Massachusetts' landmark achievement in expanding health care coverage.
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Statement on the Census Bureau Report Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007
August 26, 2008
The U.S. Census Bureau report released today included the encouraging news that the number of uninsured in the U.S. declined slightly in 2007 from 47 million to 45.7 million, but a deeper look at the trendlines shows much cause for concern.
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Frontline Caregivers, National Healthcare Providers Unveil What's Working in the Battle Against Chronic Disease
April 07, 2008
Nurses, doctors and health care workers joined CEO's from a nationally renowned group of health care providers in sharing nearly a dozen pioneering programs that contain costs while improving the quality of chronic care at a summit hosted today by the Partnership for Quality Care (PQC).
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Leading Minnesota Healthcare Organization Joins National Health Care Reform Partnership
March 04, 2008
The Partnership for Quality Care, a unique coalition that brings together some of the nation's largest and most innovative health care providers and labor unions to press for the reform and improvement of our health care system, announced today that HealthPartners of Minnesota will join its efforts to secure guaranteed, high quality, affordable health care for every American.
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PQC Statement on Healthcare Costs
February 26, 2008
The report issued today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on projected health expenditures contains critically important macroeconomic data for anyone concerned about the long-term affordability of high quality health care in the United States.
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Statement on the House of Representatives Vote to Override Presidential Veto of SCHIP
October 18, 2007
The Partnership for Quality Care is disappointed to see that the House's worthy attempt to override the veto of a bill to strengthen SCHIP and cover 10 million low-income children narrowly missed its goal.
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Powerful Healthcare Partnership Launches Television Ad Buy
September 17, 2007
The Partnership for Quality Care (PQC), a unique labor/management coalition of America's health providers and caregivers, today launched a television ad campaign calling for a renewal of and increased funding for the hugely successful State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to cover millions more uninsured children.
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Statement from the Partnership for Quality Care on the Census Bureau Report
August 28, 2007
The U.S. Census Bureau report released today contains truly sobering data on the number of Americans without health insurance.
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Unique Labor-Management Partnership Joins 25 Organizations
July 25, 2007
Dennis Rivera, Chair of the Partnership for Quality Care (PQC), a unique labor/management coalition of America's health providers and caregivers, today stood with more than twenty-five organizations to support the reauthorization and expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
