Founded in 1990, the National Coalition on Health Care is a non-profit, non-partisan organization comprised of more than 80 member groups including corporations, labor unions, small business, and the nation's major religious, consumer, and health care provider organizations united in their shared concern about the current state of America's health care. The Coalition seeks to focus public attention on the problems and inequities inherent in American health care today and to provide people with factual information to enable them to formulate educated opinions and to bring about necessary change. One hundred million Americans are affiliated with the NCHC member organizations.
The five guiding principles for the NCHC are:
1. Health Insurance for All
2. Improved Quality of Care
3. Cost Containment
4. Equitable Financing
5. Simplified Administration