About NASRO - Who We Are

NASRO is a nineteen year old non-profit association of small businesses. NASRO is managed by our founder and CEO , Robert Gaw. Mr. Gaw is a health care consultant with 25 years of extensive senior management experience and board of directors service for some of the country's leading health plans. Prior to this, Mr. Gaw was an advocate for health care reform beginning with his work on behalf of the Kennedy/Corman bill of 1974. Before he specialized in health care policy and administration Mr. Gaw was an activist who helped lead movements for justice that expanded the rights and freedoms for all of us to have an opportunity to fulfill our potential and to live without fear.

" I discovered what would many years later become the strategy and the model for NASRO, when I was 16 and was working on one of my first paid jobs in Washington D.C. for the staff at the campaign headquarters of Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. I also discovered what is now one of the forgotten answers to how we are to pay for affordable health care. When speaking before a group of medical students in Indiana in 1968, while running for President, Robert Kennedy was asked who was going to pay for all this new health care coverage he was proposing. His answer to the great surprise of the medical students was "you are". Like so many others we try and carry on that message in the work that we do and with the non-profit health plan carriers with whom we have group contracts. "

Robert Gaw

NASRO President

Mr. Gaw is an administrator/advocate whose life work is to help provide needed services and advocacy with practical solutions to the problems of health care access and affordability. He has a B.A. from Catholic University in Washington D.C., where he later studied political economy in graduate school. His career in the non-profit sector/ cooperative sector has always included a social justice/environmental perspective that enabled him to experiment with new models of organization. He grew up in the small Massachusetts town of Walpole and has worked in almost all the regions of the United States.

NASRO's group health plans are managed by our Administrator, Barbara Gibson. Ms. Gibson is a 1992 graduate of the Catholic University Law School. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree, as a 1979 Phi Beta Kappa History major at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C..

NASRO's Advisory Board is made up of leading socially responsible activists from small business, non-profits and universities.

NASRO is organized into different affiliated industry groups. See where you, your company or organization fits into our structure.

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