I frequently receive action alerts from various organizations about many different issues. One such group is Care 2 Make a Difference. They advocate for many things, including the reform of health policy, and recently sent out a call for people to send a letter to their congressional representatives urging the enactment of reform based on 7 guiding principles sponsored by the American Medical Association.
The action alert posted by Patients Action Network can be found online here.
These principles are:
1. Repeal of the Medicare physician payment formula that would trigger steep cuts and threaten seniors' access to care.***************************************************************
2. Provide health insurance coverage for all Americans.
3. Enact insurance market reforms that expand the choice of affordable coverage and eliminate denials for pre-existing conditions or due to arbitrary caps.
4. Assure that health care decisions are made by patients and their physicians, not by insurance companies or government bureaucrats. This sacred bond should include the right of patients to privately contract with physicians, so that their health care choices are respected.
5. Provide investments and incentives for initiatives that improve quality and enhance prevention and wellness.
6. Implement medical liability reforms to reduce the cost of defensive medicine.
7. Streamline and standardize insurance claims processing requirements to eliminate unnecessary costs and administrative burdens.
When I was doing research for this course, I found numerous other groups who seek to engage citizens in lobbying on health care reform. Two examples are MoveOn.org
and Mad As Hell Doctors.
There's a good list of some advocacy groups here.
Have any groups contacted you? Have you discovered any organizations who appear to be particularly effective?
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