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General Health Care Reform Websites

Alliance for Health Reform  http://www.allhealth.org/

Citizens’ Healthcare Working Group  http://www.citizenshealthcare.gov/index.php

Cover the Uninsured Week  http://covertheuninsured.org/    RSS feed

Kaiser Family Foundation – Health Coverage and the Uninsured  http://www.kff.org/uninsured/index.cfm

Healthcare-NOW  http://www.healthcare-now.org/

Institute of Medicine: Insuring America’s Health: Principles and Recommendations  http://www.iom.edu/?id=19175

National Coalition on Healthcare  http://www.nchc.org/

Public Agenda -- Issue Guide: Health Care  http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/frontdoor.cfm?issue_type=healthcare

RESULTS – 2006 Health Care for All Campaign  http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=1459

Universal Health Care Action Network  http://www.uhcan.org/

National Conference of State Legislators http://www.ncsl.org:80/programs/health/h-primary.htm

Wisconsin Health Care Reform Plans

Wisconsin Health Plan – on  Wisconsin Health Project site  http://www.wisconsinhealthproject.org/plan/index.htm

Health Care Partnership Plan – on Wisconsin AFL-CIO site  http://www.wisaflcio.org/features/Wis%20Health%20Care%20Proposal.htm

http://www.aflcio.org/issues/legislativealert/stateissues/upload/wis_fsheet.pdf

Wisconsin Health Care Partnership Plan – on Wisconsin Alliance of Cities site  http://www.wiscities.org/Newby1.pdf

Wisconsin Health Security Act – on Coalition for Wisconsin Health  site  http://www.wisconsinhealth.org/

Health Care in Wisconsin

Kaiser State Health Facts  http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?

University of Wisconsin Extension Health Policy Information  http://www.uwex.edu/ces/flp/health/

Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services  http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/

Wisconsin Medical Society – Care for the Uninsured  http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/resources/uninsured.cfm

Religious Organizations and Projects

American Baptist – Resolution On Health Care For All  http://www.abc-usa.org/resources/resol/careall.htm

Episcopal Church – Health Care Resolutions  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/1866_7706_ENG_HTM.htm

ELCA – Advocacy – Corporate Social Responsibility – Domestic Access to Healthcare  http://www.elca.org/advocacy/issues/health/healthcare_domesticaccess.html

ELCA – Caring for Health: Our Shared Endeavor  http://www.elca.org/socialstatements/health/

ELCA Background Paper - Hunger and Poverty Fact Sheet: The Uninsured  http://www.elca.org/advocacy/issues/hunger/uninsured.html

National Council of Churches –  Resolution For Renewed Faith Community  Universal Health Care Campaign  http://www.ncccusa.org/about/u2kres.html

Presbyterian Church – USA (Search for “health care” in “the Social Witness Policy Compilation”)  http://index.pcusa.org/NXT/gateway.dll?fn=default.htm$f=templates$vid=default$3.0

United Church of Christ – Justice and Peace – Health & Wellness  http://www.ucc.org/justice/health/

United Methodist Church – General Board for Church and Society – Health  http://www.umc-gbcs.org/site/pp.asp?c=fsJNK0PKJrH&b=861341

Universal Health Care Action Network – Faith Project  http://www.uhcan.org/faith/index.htm

University of Southern California Center for Religion and Civic Culture: Religion and Health Access  http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/health/

Texts of some of the above, and other religious health care statements, can be found at: http://www.uhcan.org/faith/faith_statements/intro.htm

Sources for Health and Hope Study Guide

California Council of Churches, Being the Good Samaritan: Health Access for All Californians   http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/ccrc/private/docs/health?good_samaritan.pdf

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, GAO Study Confirms Health Care Savings

 Accounts Primarily Benefit High-Income Individuals
http://www.cbpp.org/9-20-06health.htm

Citizen’s Health Care Working Group, The Health Report to the American People http://www.citizenshealthcare.gov/healthreport/healthreport.php

Cover the Uninsured, Health Care Coverage in America
http://www.citizenshealthcare.gov/resources/papers/issues_guide.pdf

Families USA, No Shelter from the Storm: America’s Uninsured Children
http://www.childrenshealthcampaign.org/tools/reports/Uninsured-Kids-report.PDF

Institute of Medicine, Care Without Coverage
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=592

Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, State Medicaid Fact Sheet [Wisconsin & United States]
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi

Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefits: 2006 Summary of Findings
http://www.kff.org/insurance/7527/upload/7528.pdf

Health Insurance Premium Growth Moderates Slightly in 2006, But Still Increases Twice as Fast as Wages and Inflation
http://www.hret.org/hret/media/content/EHBSrelease06.pdf

U.S. Census Bureau, Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005
http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p60-229.pdf

U.S. Government Accountability Office, Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, Competition and Other Factors Linked to Wide Variation in Health Care Prices, August 2005
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05856.pdf

Wisconsin Community Action Program Association, et. al., Wisconsin Connections: An Eligibility Guide to Assistance Programs for Wisconsin Households
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/connections/

WI Dept. Heath and Family Services, Badger Care Plus Program: Concept Paper, May 4, 2006.
http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/badgercareplus/pdf/BCConceptOriginalV411.pdf

Wisconsin Health Insurance Coverage2004
http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/stats/healthinsurance.htm

Wisconsin Medicaid Program.  July 2006
http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/badgercareplus/pdf/2006medicaidoverview.pdf

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