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Health Care Action Resource Links
Legislative Action Information
Find
Your Elected Officials
The
Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Legislators and Laws
Chapter
58 of the Acts of 2006, the Massachusetts health insurance mandate law
Massachusetts
Division of Health Care Finance and Policy - LECG Final Report on Universal
Health Care Financing and Delivery, Dec. 2002
MA
Chapter 141 (the "compromise legislation " for ballot initiative
Question 5 in 2000):
An Act Relative to Managed Care Practices In The Insurance Industry
Patient/Provider
Tools
Division
of Health Care Quality within the Department
of Public Health for help addressing and correcting quality of care
concerns at health care facilities in Mass.
Massachusetts
Office of Patient Protection for help with HMO and Insurance Co. complaints
Commonwealth
Health Insurance Connector Authority
Created as part
of new health care law in April 2006
Helpline
by Health Care For All
For info and assistance online or call 800-272-4232
HMO
Patient Self-Defense Kit
Ten
Questions to Ask Your Doctor
Advocacy
SlideshowsAdvocacy slideshow presentations
Health
Reform Communication Tools by Herndon Alliance
Advocacy
slideshows under development
Alliance
Advocacy for Healthcare System Reform
Alliance:
Massachusetts Healthcare System Data
Alliance
to Defend Healthcare: Who We Are
Health Reform Education & Policy
Massachusetts
State Health Facts
Masssachusetts
Health Reform Economic Analysis 12/05 by Kenneth Thorpe, PhD
Federal Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality
BU
School of Public Health Health Reform Program
and
Health Access and Affordability Monitoring Project
Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of MA reports "Road Map to Coverage"
Health
Policy CyberExchange, Duke University
Institute of Medicine:
Insuring America's Health
Reports and Recommendations
from the 3-year Project
"Consequences
of Uninsurance"
Department
of Health Care Policy,
Harvard Medical School
The
National Academy for State Health Policy
Seachange
Bulletin on health care advocacy
Your
Health Care: Choice or Chance?
Cable t.v. program, tapes available
World
Health Organization
Report Comparing
Industrialized Countries Health Systems;
U.S. has highest
spending, ranks 37th!
Contact the
following state agencies and share your views on health care:
Massachusetts
Department of Public Health
Massachusetts
Division of Insurance
Secretary
of the Commonwealth
State &
National Health Reform Organizations and Initiatives
Constitutional
Amendment for Health Care Campaign (Massachusetts)
Eliminating
Health Disparities (American Medical Students Assoc.)
Everybody
In, Nobody Out
Families USA
Health
Care for All, Massachusetts Incremental Health Reform
Jobs with Justice
Massachusetts
Medical Society
Massachusetts Nurses
Association
MassCare - The Massachusetts
Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care
National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Mass. Chapter
Physicians
for a National Health Program
Right
to Health Care
Universal
Health Care Action Network
Women's
Universal Health Initiative
Massachusetts Health Reform Organizations
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detailed page of MA health reform organizations >
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