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"Of all the forms of inequalities, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Change.gov: Make Your Voice Heard
President-Elect Barack Obama is asking Americans to join in a national discussion on health care reform. Through their website, Change.gov, his transition team has created an easy way to make your voice heard. Below you will find the principles that CBHC members have agreed are essential for any health care reform plan. We encourage you to visit Change.gov and add this list of principles to your comments in the box marked "Share your thoughts".
Health Care Justice Campaign
Principles for Affordable, Accessible, Guaranteed Health Care
These principles are some of the key components that need to be contained in the final health care plan. Whether at the national or state level, we will be judging proposals based on these principles.
Accessible:
- Is accessible for all Illinois residents
- Provides comprehensive benefits, including and not limited to benefits for mental health, in-home care, long term care, dentistry, and vision
- Fosters a network of health care facilities, including public health, community providers and other safety net providers
- Ensures continuity of coverage and continuity of care
- Maximizes consumer choice of health care providers and practitioners
- Addresses the needs of people with special care health care needs and under-served populations aim rural and urban areas
- Is affordable (fairness) to individuals, families, businesses and taxpayers and that removes financial barriers to needed care
- Provides adequate and timely payments by all payers in order to guarantee access to providers
- Promotes fairness, quality and evidence based health outcomes
- Promotes prevention and early intervention
- Eliminates disparities in access to quality health care
- Addresses the need to have adequate numbers of qualified health care caregivers, practitioners, and providers to guarantee timely access to quality care
- Provides opportunities for consumer, business, provider, and others involvement in the oversight
- Is as cost efficient as possible, spending the maximum amount of dollars on direct patient care
- Is easy for patients, providers and practitioners to use and reduces paperwork
Please go to Change.gov to make sure your principles are part of the national discussion on health care reform.»
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Join Our Statewide Postcard Campaign!
This year, tens of thousands of Illinoisans will send a clear message to their state legislators. As we enter the Fall election season, we’ll be hearing a lot of rhetoric that all our elected officials in Springfield “support healthcare reform.” But for the past two years they’ve embraced a "Do Nothing” policy. The excuse that many legislators too often use is “I’m not hearing from my constituents.”
Let’s put that to rest once and for all! It’s time to raise our voices to demand accessible, affordable, guaranteed health care for all! Give these postcards to your family, friends, co-workers and neighbors. Ask them to fill the cards out and mail them to Springfield.
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Send an electronic action alert! Join the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council and the Campaign for Better Health Care in urging legislative leaders to solve the uninsured crisis.
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