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"If criminals have a right to a lawyer, working Americans should have a right to a doctor."
-- Senator Harris Wofford (D-Pennsylvania, 1991)
Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
advocates a universal, comprehensive Single-Payer National Health Program. PNHP has more than 10,000 members and chapters across the United States. Since 1987, they have advocated for reform in the US health care system.
PNHP home page: www.pnhp.org
PNHP National links: www.pnhp.org/links/national.php
PNHP Articles of Interest www.pnhp.org/news/articles_of_interest.php
American Medical Women's Association (AMWA),
... an organization of women physicians and medical students
POSITION PAPER on Universal Access to Health Care and Health System Reform
www.amwa-doc.org/index.cfm?objectid=245B8A0D-D567-0B25-567DCF32EFDF774E
American Medical Students Association (AMSA)...more than 30,000 members nationwide endorses a Universal Health Care system
for all Americans.
www.amsa.org
www.amsa.org/hp/uhcinitiative.cfm
www.amsa.org/legislativecenter
American College of Physicians
"No Health Insurance? It's Enough to Make You Sick"
- Scientific Research Linking the Lack of Health Coverage to Poor Health
www.acponline.org/uninsured/lack-contents.htm
Boston University School of Public Health
U.S. Health Reform Program
www.healthreformprogram.org
U.S. Health Reform http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/hs/ushealthreform.htm
Monitoring Project: http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/hs/accessandaffordability.htm
Prescription Drug Reform:
http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/hs/ushealthreform.htm
New Strategies for a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit:
www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/hs/images/Health_Reform/Medicare_RX_New_Strategies-
Pharmacists_news-Winter_2004.pdf
State Burden Prescription Drug Fact Sheets
http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/hs/State%20by%20state%20fact%20sheets.htm
National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals & Consumers
www.thenationalcoalition.org
National Medical Association
www.nmanet.org
National Physicians Alliance
www.npalliance.org
National Women's Health Network
www.nwhn.org
National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM)
www.nacpm.org
American Medical Women's Association
www.amwa-doc.org
American Public Health Association
www.apha.org
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UHCAN- Universal Health Care Action Network
www.uhcan.org
UHCAN Health Care Access Resolution
www.uhcan.org/HCAR/index.html
Endorsements for the Health Care Access Resolution
www.uhcan.org/HCAR/endorsers.htm
CITIZENS Health Care Working Group Take Action
www.citizenshealthcare.gov/index.php
Our Health Care Future
www.ourhealthcarefuture.org
National Coalition on Health Care:
www.nchc.org
The nation's largest and most broadly representative alliance working to improve America's health care. The Coalition is non-partisan, is
comprised of almost 100 organizations, employing or representing about 150 million Americans. Members are united in the belief that we need health care coverage for all, cost management, improvement of
health care quality and safety, equitable financing and simplified administration.
The Coalition brings together large and small businesses, the nation's largest labor, consumer, religious and
primary care provider groups, and the largest health and pension funds. Distinguished leaders from academia, business, and government have also pledged their support of the Coalition'sefforts. The
Coalition's Honorary Co-Chairmen are former Presidents George Bush, Gerald R. Ford, and Jimmy Carter, and its Co-Chairmen are former Governor Robert D. Ray (R-IA) and former Congressman Paul G. Rogers
(D-FL). Its President is Henry E. Simmons, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.
They say "Health care coverage for all is needed to assure quality of care, to improve the health status of Americans, and to enable us to control costs and to simplify the system. It is an essential social policy goal."
Campaign for a National Health Program Now!
A large group working together with Physicians for a National Health Program, major labor unions and the faith-based community, in support of
National Health Insurance Bill HR 676 www.cnhpnow.org
Summary of National Health Insurance Bill HR 676
www.cnhpnow.org/hr676.html
Code Blue Now
A national grassroots education and advocacy group committed to positive change in the U.S. health care system.
www.codebluenow.org
CoverTheUninsuredWeek
www.covertheuninsuredweek.org
2004 Honorary Co-Chairs: Former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
Everybody In, Nobody Out
www.everybodyinnobodyout.org
Americans for Health Care
www.americansforhealthcare.com/plugin/template/afhc/170/*
Get the Facts - See the charts
www.americansforhealthcare.com/plugin/template/afhc/171/*
Presidential Candidates Health Care Plans: Only Dennis Kucinich called for Universal Health Care with a Single Payer Plan but virtually all the candidates have a Health Care Reform on
their Agenda
www.americansforhealthcare.com/plugin/template/afhc/*/9199
Healthcare Reform A Woman's Issue
www.ourbodiesourselves.org/reform.htm
The National Health Care for the Homeless Council
www.nhchc.org/index.htm
National Healthcare Reform Meetup Day
http://healthcare.meetup.com
Cartoons about America's Sick Health Care System
http://students.washington.edu/jedow/nhi/cartoons.htm
WriteCongress.org
"With 43.6 million uninsured Americans, tens of millions more underinsured Americans, and the
rest facing double digit increases in health insurance premiums, we need a change in our healthcare system. Our goal is to get 1,000,000 letters sent to Congress by the next election in 2004." (we note
this site is no longer online).
AFSCME - www.afscme.org
America's Agenda: Health Care for All
www.americasagenda.org
Community Catalyst
www.communitycatalyst.org
Families USA
www.familiesusa.org
Herndon Alliance
www.herndonalliance.org
Jobs with Justice
www.jwj.org
Progressive States Network
www.progressivestates.org
Avery Institute for Social Change
www.averyinstitute.org
Campaign for America's Future
www.ourfuture.org
Center for American Progress
www.americanprogress.org
Communication Workers of America (CWA)
www.cwa-union.org
Consumers Union
www.consumersunion.org
Gray Panthers
www.graypanthers.org
Health Care Now!
www.healthcare-now.org
Medicare Rights Center
www.medicarerights.org
MergerWatch Project of Community Catalyst
www.mergerwatch.org
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
www.naacp.org
National Association of Community Health Centers
www.nachc.com
National Association of Social Workers
www.socialworkers.org
National Health Care for the Homeless Council
www.nhchc.org
National Health Law Program
www.healthlaw.org
RESULTS
www.results.org
USAction/USAction Education Fund
www.usaction.org
Workmen's Circle – Arbeter Ring
www.circle.org
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