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The Council is organized as an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Incorporation by the State of Minnesota: August 10, 1998.

CCHC

"A free-market resource for designing the future of health care"

Our Mission

CCHC advocates for patient and physician freedom, medical innovation, and the right of citizens to a confidential patient-doctor relationship.

Our Goals

• Individual patient and practitioner freedom in health care decision-making
• Protection of patient autonomy and dignity through medical record privacy and strong patient consent provisions
• Reduced dependency on government health care programs
• Free and open health care market, including Medical Savings Accounts, and non-managed care health insurance options.
• Market competition at the patient and consumer level.
• Equal tax treatment for purchase of health care insurance
• Privately-owned insurance independent from employment
• Life-long insurance policies.
• A charitable safety net strengthened through tax incentives
• Elimination of taxes on health care services.

Twila Brase, president of CCHC, participates in panel discussion on genetic privacy at a consortium held by the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 2003. From left to right are Professor Timothy Church, PhD, MS, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Ms. Brase, Professor Steve Jacobsen, MD, PhD, Mayo Medical School, Don Gemberling, Minnesota Department of Administration, and Professor George Annas, JD, MPH, Chair, Health Law, Boston University.

CCHC Board of Directors

Chairperson
Martin N. Kellogg
Retired
Former President of UFE, Inc.

President
Twila J. Brase, R.N.
Public Health Nurse

Administrative Secretary
Ellen Loegering
Citizen

Treasurer
Val Baertlein
Master in Public Health
Consultant in non-profits

Michael Beckman, P.T.
CEO, Valley Rehabilitation Services