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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

View detailed page of MA health reform organizations >



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