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Justice and Advocacy Resource Links
Pennsylvania Organizations (Health Care)
- Lutheran Advocacy Ministry of Pennsylvania (LAMP)
- Pennsylvania Health Access Network
www.pahealthaccess.org
- Pennsylvanians United for Affordable Health Care
www.insurepanow.org
advocates expanded health care insurance coverage in Pennsylvania
(supported by a number of Pennsylvania employee unions)
- Pennsylvania Governor's Office of Health Care Reform
Pennsylvania Council of Churches -- Recommended Links on Health Care
- Council's Health & Health Care Policy Position Statement
www.pachurches.org/What/Advocacy/Policies/Policies.htm;
(scroll down and click on "Health")
- Health Care for All PA: www.healthcare4allpa.org
- Faithful Reform in Health Care:
www.faithfulreform.org
- American Medical Student Association Universal Health Care Initiative:
www.amsa.org/uhc
- Physicians for a National Health Care Program: www.pnhp.org
- The Case for Single Payer, Universal Health Care for the United States:
cthealth.server101.com/the_case_for_universal_health_care_in_the_united_states.htm.
- Connecticut Coalition for Universal Health Care
[cthealth.server101.com],
Outline of Talk Given To The Association of State Green Parties, Moodus, Connecticut on June 4, 1999,
by John R. Battista, M.D. and Justine McCabe, Ph.D. Somewhat dated, but useful.
- Everybody In, Nobody Out:
www.everybodyinnobodyout.org.
Project EINO educates the public, encouraging state movement towards an equitable health care system
guaranteeing universal access to care, to be accomplished by support of grassroots organizing and empowerment
of those communities most at-risk in the current health care system.
- Healthcare Now!: www.healthcare-now.org. Healthcare Now
is a grassroots network educating the U.S. people about the national healthcare crisis and challenging the
for-profit medical industrial complex that consumes so much of our healthcare dollar. The group organizes for
a national single-payer healthcare system that will cover everybody with excellent healthcare and cost less money.
- People Count: Listening to Voices about Healthcare:
www.afsc.org/pittsburgh/health-report.pdf.
A Western Pennsylvania Listening Project on Healthcare (May 2005) prepared by the American Friends Service
Committee, Pittsburgh
National Organizations (Health Care)
- Healthcare Now
www.healthcare-now.org
Advocacy for single-payer U.S. healthcare system. Works with many organizations,
including major church denominations.
- UHCAN Universal Health Care Action Network
www.uhcan.org
Coalition of many national organizations, with resources for state and national public policy advocacy.
- United Church of Christ
- United Methodist Church
- Presbyterian Church USA
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- United Church of Canada
- "SiCKO": Michael Moore's blog on U.S. Health Care issues.
- Children's Defense Fund: CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program)
www.childrensdefense.org
- Families USA: Health Care policy and consumer issues
www.familiesusa.org
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Location: http://ja.ppjr.org/issues/health.htm
Last Updated: 6/25/08
Created: May 31, 2008
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