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Health Care Reform
Covering: Health Care Reform
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this website offers health care information, research findings, and data to help consumers, health providers, health insurers, researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues.
Alliance for Health Care Reform
Nonpartisan nonprofit group working to ensure that all people in the United States have health care coverage at a reasonable cost. There are links to resourcs and other websites for many different issus related to health care, such as prescription drugs, long-term care and more.
Almanac of Policy Issues
This website is a jumping-off point for many different articles and websites about the topic of universal health care.
American Medical Student Association
This page on the American Medical Student Association's website gives many different links to the issue of universal health care, along with how to take action, and an election guide for 2008 with a comparison of the candidates' views on the topic.
Democratic National Committee - Health Care Reform
View the Democratic Party’s stand on affordable health care for everyone.
Healthcare Crisis: Who's At Risk?
Companion site to the PBS program examining healthcare issues in America, including insurance, managed care, and Medicare.
Kaisernetwork.org
The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S. Provides non-partisan information – from sophisticated policy research, to basic facts and numbers, to information young people can use to improve their health or the aged can use to understand Medicare.
Physicians for a National Health Program
"Physicians for a National Health Care Program is a non-profit research and education organization of 15,000 physicians, medical students and health professionals who support single-payer national health insurance." This site includes the latest news research, single payer resources and PNHP proposals.
Protect Your Healthcare
Works to protect consumer and employee access to quality healthcare and oppose federal Association Health Plan (AHP) legislation.
Republic National Committee - Health Care Reform
View the Republic Party’s stand on health care reform in the United States.
State Health Facts
This web site supplies statistical data and policy information organized as individual state profiles and as 50-state comparisons in demographics, economics, health status, health coverage and uninsured, managed care, providers and services use, etc. State profiles are compared to US national averages. There are also numerous Kaiser Foundation reports in health care and policy.
Strengthening Health Care - White House
Keep up to date with the White House’s position on Health Care Reform with documents, speeches and news items.
Strengthening Medicare - White House
Keep up to date with the White House’s position on Medicare with documents, speeches and news items.
The Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System
Three reports published by the Institute of Medicine in 2006 provide an overview of the emergency care system in the United States. They also focus on three key areas: pediatric emergency care, hospital-based emergency care, and EMS services. From the Institute of Medicine home page click on Healthcare & Quality and scroll down to view healthcare research reports.
Universal Health Care Action Network
Gives information in the effort to achieve universal health care nationally by organizing local and state grassroots efforts. There are many links to organizations at both the national and state level that are working to achieve this goal.
Last Update: April 30, 2008
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