U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions
U.S.
House Committee on Energy and Commerce-Subcommittee on Health
Department of Health
and Human Services
National
Institutes of Health
Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Centers
for Disease Prevention and Control
Kaiser Family Foundation
www.health08.org
"...a
non-profit, 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."
The Commonwealth
Fund
"The
Commonwealth Fund's mission is to promote a high performing health care
system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency,
particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people,
the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults...
The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on
health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and
policy."
American Medical
Association
"The
American Medical Association helps doctors help patients by uniting physicians
nationwide to work on the most important professional and public health
issues."
Alliance for
Health Reform
"...opinion
leaders need an unbiased source of information so they can understand the
roots of the nation's health care problems and the trade-offs posed by
competing proposals for change. The Alliance for Health Reform exists to
provide that information. We offer a full array of resources and viewpoints,
in a number of formats, to elected officials and their staffs, journalists,
policy analysts and advocates... A nonpartisan, nonprofit group,
the Alliance believes that all in the U.S. should have access to health
care and health coverage at a reasonable cost. But we do not lobby for
any particular blueprint, nor do we take positions on legislation."
Trust for America's Health
"non-profit, non-partisan
organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every
community and working to make disease prevention a national priority...
By focusing on PREVENTION, PROTECTION, and COMMUNITIES, TFAH is leading
the fight to make disease prevention a national priority."
Families USA
"...national
nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality,
affordable health care for all Americans."
Americans
for Health Care
"a
project of SEIU, the largest union of health care workers in the country.
...building broad-based coalitions of individuals and organizations in
order to push for health care policies which ensure: Quality, affordable
health care for all, without gaps in coverage or access; Care that is cost
efficient and medically effective; A core package of health insurance benefits
with choices comparable in quantity and scope to those available to federal
employees; and Financing that is fair and includes employers, individuals,
and the federal, state and local governments."
Universal Health
Care Action Network
"A
nationwide network that promotes comprehensive health care for all through
education, strategy development and advocacy."
Cato
Institute-Health Care
"Cato scholars pay particular
attention to the effects of government regulations and subsidies on health
care quality and cost, as well as patient choice and dependency on government."
Heritage
Foundation-Center for Health Policy Studies
"move today's bureaucracy
driven, heavily regulated third-party payment system to a new patient-centered
system of consumer choice and real free-market competition."
Center
for American Progress-Health Care
Democratic Leadership
Council-Health Care
"create a market-based,
Information Age health care system"
Doctors for Medical Liability
Reform (DMLR): Protect Patients Now
"protecting patients' access
to healthcare by supporting federal legislation that will reform our nation's
broken medical liability system."
The Archimedes Movement
Launched by former Oregon
Governor John Kitzhaber on Jan. 13 2006 aims to "share a vision, catalyze
a debate, and launch a movement that will grow so powerful it creates positive,
long-lasting, cost-effective change in houw our health care system functions."
'08 EFFORTS
-Americans for Health Care: Iowa
for Health Care, New Hampshire
for Health Care
-ACS CAN, AARP, the Alzheimer’s Association, the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association: Are You Covered? (press release)
-Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (press release)
Several '08 prospects have
considerable expertise in health care. Gov. Mitt Romney has instituted
health insurance reforms in Massachussetts that are being closely watched.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich founded the Center
for Health Transformation to accelerate "the adoption of transformational
solutions and policies for better health and more choices at lower cost."
Gov. Mike Huckabee lost 110 pounds after being diagnosed with Type II diabetes;
as Chairman of the National Governors Association he promoted a "Healthy
America Initiative." "It's about building a culture of
physical activity, prevention and wellness in the United States," he wrote.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton delved deeply into health care issues a decade
ago when then President Bill Clinton appointed her chair of the President’s
Task Force on National Health Care Reform on Jan. 25, 1993. Former
Gov. Tommy Thompson served as Health and Human Services Secretary from
2001-05 and is now chairman of Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
Democracy
in Action: 2004 Health Care
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