- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Offers health care information, research findings, and data to help consumers, health providers, health insurers, researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues.
www.ahrq.gov
- Alliance For Health Reform
Nonpartisan nonprofit group working to ensure that all people in the United States have health coverage at a reasonable cost.
www.allhealth.org
- Alpha Center
National health policy resource center offering research, training, consulting, and facilitation, with expertise in health reform, finance, Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, and insurance markets.
www.ac.org
- Americans for National Health Care
Nonprofit organization created to design and implement a health care plan that will cover all Amercians.
www.medicalinsforyou.com
- Approach to National Health Care: Lifetime Voucher, Single Payer, and Mandatory Medical Savings Accounts
Discusses a novel approach to national health care combining federal, fixed, lifetime vouchers, mandatory MSAs, and a safety net.
www.his.com/~robertb/hlthplan.htm
- Center for Health and Public Policy Studies - University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health
Provides data and organizes convenings that support public policies to develop an affordable, high-quality health care system.
chpps.berkeley.edu
- CHF - The Children's Health Fund
Committed to providing health care to underserved children and their families through deleopment of primary care medical programs, response to public health crises, and the promotion of guaranteed access to health care for all children.
www.childrenshealthfund.org
- Department of Health Care Policy - Harvard Medical School
Serves the nation as a source for scientific knowledge about the health care system.
www.hcp.med.harvard.edu
- DividedWeFail.org
Nonprofit that believes access to health care and long-term financial security are basic needs that all Americans share. Includes election coverage and related resources.
www.aarp.org/issues/dividedwefail
- Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research
Addresses the entire spectrum of clinical health policy from formation using evidence-based approaches to strategies for optimal policy implementation.
clinpol.mc.duke.edu
- European Observatory on Health Care Systems
Supports health policy making and the analysis of health care systems in Europe.
www.observatory.dk
- Frontline: Dr. Solomon's Dilemma
Studies the battle to achieve a quality, economically viable health care system, and profiles the financial pressures on medical practitioners when doctors wages are based on controlling costs.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/doctor
- Health System and Policy Division - Health Canada
Presents national health expenditures in Canada.
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/medi-assur/index_e.html
- Health-Care Reform
Offers a plan to reform the health-care system by restructuring medical education.
www.health-care-reform.net
- Healthcare Crisis: Who's At Risk?
Companion site to the PBS program examining healthcare issues in America, including insurance, managed care, and Medicare.
www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis
- HIPAACode.com
Offers information and resources about healthcare terminology systems and standards.
www.hipaacode.com
- Information for State Health Policy Program - University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
Serves as a model for state health agencies in the use of electronic communication to disseminate health information.
www2.umdnj.edu/ishppweb/homepage.htm
- Kaiser Network: September 11 Aftermath
Special coverage of the issues and debates shaping health policy since the September 11th terrorist attacks. Includes analysis of the threat of bioterrorism.
www.kaisernetwork.org/specialcoverage/9_11.cfm
- Kaisernetwork.org
Offers a variety of news and information on health policy issues, including Medicare, Medicaid, children's health, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, health care advertising, minority health, and health reform.
www.kaisernetwork.org
- Maternal and Child Health Policy Research Center
Conducts research and analysis on health insurance, managed care, and other financing and delivery issues affecting children.
www.mchpolicy.org
- Milbank Memorial Fund
Endowed national foundation that supports nonpartisan analysis, study, and research on significant issues in health policy.
www.milbank.org
- National Academy for State Health Policy
Nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to excellence in state health policy and practice. Conducts policy analysis, provides training, and more.
www.nashp.org
- National Health Policy Forum (NHPF)
Bipartisan education and information exchange program primarily serving federal legislative and executive agency staff working in health care and related areas.
www.nhpf.org
- Protect Your Healthcare
Works to protect consumer and employee access to quality healthcare and oppose federal Association Health Plan (AHP) legislation.
www.protectyourhealthcare.org
- RAND COMPARE
Project of RAND Health to provide information and tools to help policymakers, the media, and other interested parties understand, design, and evaluate health policies.
www.randcompare.org
- Stanford University Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research
Dedicated to education and rigorous investigation to guide health policy and clinical practices.
chppcor.stanford.edu
- UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Conducts research on national, state, and local health policy issues, provides public service to policy makers and community leaders, and offers educational opportunities for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu
- University of California, Berkeley - Health Policy Training Program
Interdisciplinary health policy program featuring sociology, political science, and economics.
socrates.berkeley.edu/~rwj
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