League of Women Voters® of Virginia

League of Women Voters®
of Montgomery County, VA

Important Links to Information About the Health Care Reform Issue.

Polls:

• Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, September 2009
• Huffington Post: New Poll: 77% Support "Choice" of Public Option

Articles and Information:

• Insurance Company Rules: Blog with lots of links to more information.
• Insurance Company Rules: Score sheet of state by state insurance rules
• Employer Health Benefits, 2008 Summary of Findings from the Kaiser Family Foundadtion and Health Research & Educational Trust
• Statement of Jacob S. Hacker, Ph.D. Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science, Yale University
• New York Times Sept. 29, 2009 Article: "Medicare for All? 'Crazy,' 'Socialized' and Unlikely by Katharine Q. Seelye
• Americans for Stable Quality Care
• The American Journal of Medicine: Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National Study (pdf hosted at washingtonpost.com)
• Insurance Company rules: "What Should Be the Goal of Health Care Reform?"
• HealthCare4ALLPA - Information on Pennsylvania's Single Payer Solution including specifics as to savings to customers.
• Defending Science.org: A discussion of the book: Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health by David Michaels
• Building A Better Health Care System: Specification for Reform from National Coalition on Health Care.
• The Bellingham Herald: Local league says health care reform imperative byJayne Freudenberger and Elsie Heinrick
• Factcheck.org's Government-Run Health Care?
• The New York Times: One Injury, 10 Countries: A Journey in Health Care

Specific League of Women Voters Resource Sites:

• League of Women Voters of the United States: Health Care Reform
• League of Women Voters of Norman (Oklahoma); Health Care Issues and Reform Proposals
• League of Women Voters of California: Grassroots Health Care Reform
• League of Women Voters of San Francisco: Healthcare reform - Still a matter of life or death.
• League of Women Voters of Arizona: Health Care Issues Behind Health Care Reform
• League of Women Voters of Orange-Durham-Chatam (North Carolina): Why is comprehensive change in North Carolina's Health Insurance System Needed?
• League of Women Voters of Philadelphia: Health Care Update
• League of Women Voters of Dearborn & Dearborn Heights Michigan: LWV Supports Public Option/Health Care Reform
• League of Women Voters of Nashville, Tennessee: Discussion Topic: Health Care Reform

(This list is just a beginning of the information available concerning Health Care Reform. If you know of additional information sources that you would like to be considered for inclusion, please send a link to that source to vaopengov.org@gmail.com