ORGANIZATIONS & ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS

Health08 - health08.org is part of a broad effort by the Kaiser Family Foundation to provide a central hub for resources and information about health policy issues in the 2008 election. The site -- operated by Kaiser staff -- provides analysis of policy issues, regular public opinion surveys, daily news updates, video of speeches and debates from the campaign trail, original interviews and resources for journalists covering the election.

Voice for the Uninsured - We want to give voice to the 45 million Americans without health insurance.

Alliance for Health Reform - The Alliance for Health Reform is a bipartisan, nonprofit organization that conducts health policy briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington for congressional staff and media. The Alliance also publishes resource books on health policy topics such as health expenditures, assists journalist nationwide to develop articles and broadcasts on health issues, and maintains a source list of hundreds of health care experts

National Coalition on Health Care - The National Coalition on Health Care is nonprofit, nonpartisan, representative alliance working to improve America's health care. The Coalition brings together large and small businesses, labor unions, consumer groups, religious groups and primary care providers dedicated to the achievement of better, more affordable health care.

NEWS & BLOGS 

Healthcare -- One of the issues followed by stateline.org, a project of the Pew Center for the States and an excellent source of current information including newspaper stories from around the country.

• Health08: http://www.health08.org/index.cfm, http://www.health08.org/sidebyside.cfm
• YouthNoise:http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=2239
• Presidential Candidates on HealthCare: http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/issues/healthcare/index.html
• CNN Issue Center - Health Care: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.healthcare.html
• WebMD: Health Matters in 2008 Election http://www.webmd.com/election2008/default.htm
• Alliance for Health Reform: http://www.allhealth.org/index.asp
• American Health Care Association http://www.ahcancal.org/advocacy/Pages/AdvocacyInitiatives.aspx
• American Medical Association Advocacy Platform: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/12842.html
• Voice for The Uninsured www.voicefortheuninsured.org
• Center for Health Transformation: http://www.healthtransformation.net/
• America's Promise Alliance: All Kids Covered http://www.americaspromise.org/APAPage.aspx?id=6524&ekmensel=a203b250_248_336_6524_1
• ThinkMTV Mental Health: http://think.mtv.com/Issues/mentalhealth/
• YouTube You Choose: http://youtube.com/youchoose_issue?i=healthcare
• ThinkMTV Health & Self: http://think.mtv.com/Issues/mentalhealth/
• Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
  The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality is a government agency whose research provides evidence-based information on health care outcomes; quality; and cost, use, and access.
• Alliance for Health Reform
  The Alliance for Health Reform is a bipartisan, nonprofit organization that conducts health policy briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington for congressional staff and media. The Alliance also publishes resource books on health policy topics such as health expenditures, assists journalist nationwide to develop articles and broadcasts on health issues, and maintains a source list of hundreds of health care experts.
• American Enterprise Institute for Public Health Research
  The American Enterprise Institute for Public Health Research is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution, located in Washington, D.C. Its research focuses on economics and trade; social welfare; government tax, spending, regulatory, and legal policies; U.S. politics; international affairs; and U.S. defense and foreign policies.
• American Hospital Association
  The American Hospital Association is a national organization that represents all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities in national health policy development, legislative and regulatory debates, and judicial matters.
• America's Health Insurance Plans
  The organization is a national trade association that represents members who provide health benefits. The organization conducts research and distributes information to the public on health care financing and delivery.
• Center for Studying Health System Change
  The Center for Studying Health System Change is a nonpartisan policy research organization that designs and conducts studies focused on the U.S. health care system to inform the thinking and decisions of policy makers in government and private industry.
• Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization
  The Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization initiative, a program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides public and private decision-makers with information on health care policy, financing, and market developments.
• Commonwealth Fund
  The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. The Fund is dedicated to helping people become more informed about their health care, and improving care for vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly, low-income families, minority Americans, and the uninsured.
• Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
  The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care is an online resource from Dartmouth Medical School that makes information about the American health care system, including data on expenditures, available to the public.
• Health Care Leadership Council
  The Health Care Leadership Council forms CEO-level task forces on health care quality and costs to discuss policy reform options and make legislative and regulatory recommendations.
• Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
  The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a nonprofit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public.
• Heritage Foundation
  The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational whose work in health care emphasizes the beliefs that individuals are best suited to make health care decisions for their families and Congress should reform the system to incorporate patient choice and free-market competition.
• National Business Group on Health
  The National Business Group on Health (formerly the Washington Business Group on Health) is a nonprofit organization that represents large employers on health policy, legislation, and regulations.
• National Coalition on Health Care
  The National Coalition on Health Care is nonprofit, nonpartisan, representative alliance working to improve America's health care. The Coalition brings together large and small businesses, labor unions, consumer groups, religious groups and primary care providers dedicated to the achievement of better, more affordable health care.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care in the United States. They concentrate their grantmaking in four areas: to assure that all Americans have access to quality health care at reasonable cost; to improve the quality of care and support for people with chronic health conditions; to promote healthy communities and lifestyles and to reduce the personal, social and economic harm caused by substance abuse-tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs.
• Urban Institute Health Policy Center
  The Urban Institute provides data analysis on major health policy topics, particularly insurance coverage, costs and spending, health reform, Medicaid policy, welfare policy, and long-term care, aging and disabilities. Urban Institute research is based on analysis of different datasets, including the federal census data and the Institute's own National Survey of America's Families.
• Census Bureau's Health Insurance Data -- Children's health insurance data, general data on health insurance coverage, and the report Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2004 .
• American Public Health Association -- News and information relating to disease prevention and health promotion, including the American Journal of Public Health.
• Center for Bioethics -- A site on the moral implications of science, medicine, and research. Supported by the University of Pennsylvania's Center of Bioethics.
• BCBS Health Issues -- From the BlueCross BlueShield Association, this site provides research and analysis of current health care news issues.
• Center for Law and the Public's Health -- From Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University, the Center acts as a resource on public health law, ethics, and policy for public health practitioners, lawyers, policy-makers, and others. Includes model legislation that addresses current public health issues.
• Citizens' Health Care Working Group--a working group created by Congress as part of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. Published their final recommendations as Health Care That Works for All Americans.
• Healthcare -- One of the issues followed by stateline.org, a project of the Pew Center for the States and an excellent source of current information including newspaper stories from around the country.
• Health Privacy Project -- From the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, this site offers consumer information, federal legislation, and state-by-state comparisons of health privacy laws.
• Institute of Medicine -- Part of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine provides information and advice concerning health and science policy to government, health professionals, and the public. This site provides access to recent reports and studies carried out by the IOM.
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations -- A national organization which evaluates and accredits health care organizations. They provide a searchable database of their evaluations of health care organizations from all over the country.
• National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) -- A forum of state health policy makers, NASHP provides statistical information and state-by-state comparisons regarding a variety of public health and policy issues.
• National Center for Health Workforce Information and Analysis -- The site from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration tracks and disseminates statistics on the health care workforce on individual states and the United States as a whole. Includes State Health Workforce Profiles.
• National Conference of State Legislatures: Health -- News and information on current health issues including the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and an overview of health-related issues. Free registration required.
• Public Agenda Online: Health Care -- "The journalist's inside sources for public opinion and policy analysis" offers background, facts presented graphically, poll data, a digest of recent news stories, and much more on the topics of health care and Medicare.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- Includes information on the department and its activities as well as subject access to health topics. Includes the Bureau of Health Professions providing information on health care quality and health care workforce trends, as well as various practitioner data banks. 

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