Alliance for Health Reform is a nonpartisan, nonprofit group that "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." Includes the 2004 sourcebook, Covering Health Issues* and various other Publications.*
Americans for Health Care: a project of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). "Americans for Health Care is uniting working families, small business owners, seniors, health care workers, community leaders, and policy makers to fight for affordable, quality health care that we can all count on." Site includes fact sheets, recent news stories, and personal stories of people struggling with access.
American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), Task Force produced a somewhat more scholarly but accessibly written report: Access to Health Care.*
Center for Studying Health System Change offers scholarly studies on access to care, including the uninsured and those with low income as well as racial and ethnic minorities and people with chronic conditions; as well as a broader range of articles dealing with insurance coverage and healthcare costs.
Covertheuninsuredweek.org is a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is among the most helpful sites on the problem of health care access. The site includes information on the national cover the uninsured week campaign; personal stories of individuals struggling with access; fact sheets; current news stories; and various downloadable resources.*
From 2001 to 2004, the Institute of Medicine produced six groundbreaking volumes dealing with access to healthcare. The Institute offers report briefs, fact sheets, and even a searchable copy of each volume on their web site. The volumes include: Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations,* January 2004; Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America,* June2003; A Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Uninsurance*, March 2003; Health Insurance is a Family Matter,* September 2002; Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late,* May 2002; Coverage Matters: Insurance and Health Care,* October 2001.
The articles on the Kaiser Family Foundation's Health Coverage & the Uninsured page tend to be more technical (less "user friendly") than some other sites, but they include some of the very best and most extensive research available on the subject matter.
Founded in 1990, the National Coalition on Health Care is a nonprofit, nonpartisan coalition devoted to the principles of (1) Health care coverage for all; (2) Cost management (3) Improvement of health care quality and safety. (4) Equitable financing; and (5) Simplified administration. Site includes facts about health-care, as well as various downloadable studies,* and speeches.*
Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) is "a not-for-profit organization of physicians, medical students, and other health care professionals that support a national health insurance (NHI) program. Specifically, we believe that a single-payer system (where the government finances health care, but keeps the delivery of health care to mostly private control) is the only solution to solving the United States' many health care problems." Many useful articles and PowerPoint Slide shows available on this site.
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