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It's Up To You

What's next in the national discussion about our health care? This is your chance to be part of an important debate. Use the resources of this web site to learn about our health care system.

What happens next, depends on you.

The following organizations supported this effort to engage individual citizens to find ways to make health care work for all Americans.

Statements of support from government representatives.

Please note that inclusion on this page does not imply that the Working Group supports or endorses these entities, or that they endorse the Working Group's recommendations.

American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org	American Academy of Physician Assistants http://www.aapa.org/
Alliance to Defend Health Care http://massdefendhealthcare.org/	American Association of Critical Care Nurses http://www.aacn.org/
American Chiropractic Association http://www.acatoday.org/	American College of Clinical Pharmacy http://www.accp.com/
American College of Nurse Midwives http://www.midwife.org/	American College of Nurse Practitioners http://www.nurse.org/acnp/index.shtml
American College of Physicians http://www.acponline.org/	American Federation of State, County,and Municipal Employees http://www.afscme.org/
American Hospice Foundation http://www.americanhospice.org/	American Hospital Association http://www.aha.org/
American Medical Student Association http://www.amsa.org/	American Nurses Association http://www.ana.org/
American Osteopathic Association http://www.osteopathic.org/	American Psychological Association http://www.apa.org/
American Public Health Association http://www.apha.org/	Americans for Health Care http://www.americansforhealthcare.com/
Ascension Health http://www.ascensionhealth.org	The Avery Institute for Social Change http://www.averyinstitute.org/

 

Care ATC: Care Around-The-Clock http://www.careatc.com	Catholic Health Association http://www.chausa.org/
Cedars-Sinai Health System http://www.csmc.edu/	Clark County, Nevada http://www.co.clark.nv.us/
Code Blue Now! America's Health Care Voice http://www.codebluenow.org/	Consumers Union http://www.consumersunion.org/
Cor Jesu Academy St. Louis, Missouri http://www.corjesu.org/ American Politics, Dr. Brian Hohlt	Council for Public Deliberation http://www.cpdohio.org/
Culinary Health Fund http://www.culinaryhealthfund.org/	Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center http://www.dhmc.org/

 

Family Health Care Network http://www.fhcn.org/	Federation of American Hospitals http://www.fah.org/
Food 4 Less Warehouse Stores http://www.food4less1.com/homepage/index.htm	Fred Meyer Department Stores http://www.fredmeyer.com/homepage/index.htm
Fry's Food and Drug Stores http://www.frysfood.com/homepage/index.htm	Great Basin Primary Care Association http://gbpca.org/
Greater Hartford Interfaith Coalition for Equity and Justice http://www.ghicej.org/	Greater San Antonio Hospital Council http://www.gsahc.org/
Health Care for Washington http://www.healthcareforallwa.org/	Health Care Leadership Council http://www.hlc.org/

 

Imagine Chicago http://imaginechicago.org/home.html	Institute for Truth in Accounting http://www.truthinaccounting.org/
Jewish Council for Public Affairs http://jewishpublicaffairs.org	John Snow, Inc. and JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. http://www.jsi.com/
Kansas Public Health Association http://www.kpha.us/	Kroger Supermarkets http://www.kroger.com
Lee Institute http://www.leeinstitute.org/leeinstitute/index.shtml	Midwives Alliance of North America http://www.mana.org/

 

National Assembly on School Based Health Care http://www.nasbhc.org/	National Association of Community Health Centers http://www.nachc.com/
National Association of Certified Professional Midwives http://www.nacpm.net/	National Association of Counties http://www.naco.org/
National Association of Realtors http://www.realtor.com/Default.asp	National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers http://www.TheNationalCoalition.org
National Governors Association http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga	National Health Care for the Homeless Council http://nhchc.org/
National League of Cities http://www.nlc.org/home/	National Parent Teacher Association http://www.pta.org/
National Rural Health Association http://www.nrharural.org/	National Women's Health Network http://www.nwhn.org/
Network, a Catholic Social Justice Lobby http://www.networklobby.org/	Oklahoma Insurance Department http://www.oid.state.ok.us/
Open Door/BMH Health Center http://www.odbmh.org/

 

Physicians Practice http://www.physicianspractice.com	Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine, Pikeville, Kentucky http://pcsom.pc.edu
Quality Food Centers http://www.qfconline.com/homepage/index.htm	Ralph's Supermarkets http://www.ralphs.com/homepage/index.htm
Results http://www.results.org/	Safeway http://www.safeway.com/
St. Joseph Health System, Center for Healthcare Reform http://www.stjhs.org/chr/	Society for the Arts in Health Care http://www.thesah.org/template/index.cfm
Starbucks Coffee http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/default.asp	The State Chamber: Oklahoma's Association of Business and Industry http://www.okstatechamber.com/
Suffolk County (N.Y.) Psychological Association http://www.suffolkpsych.org

 

UCLA School of Public Affairs http://www.spa.ucla.edu/main.cfm	U.S. Chamber of Commerce http://www.uschamber.com/
United Food and Commercial Workers Union http://www.ufcw.org/	Universal Health Care Action Network http://www.uhcan.org/
University Medical Center http://www.umcsn.com/	University of North Florida College of Health, School of Nursing http://www.unf.edu/coh/cohnursi.htm
Veritas Health Systems http://www.veritascdh.com/	Washington Health Foundation http://www.whf.org/
Willamette Dental http://www.willamettedental.com/	The Workmen's Circle http://www.circle.org
The Workmen's Circle - New York Region http://www.circle.org	WorldDoc Health Management Systems https://www.worlddoc.com/

 

 

Legislative Sponsors

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah)

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon)

U.S. Senators Hatch and Wyden sponsored the legislation creating the Working Group.

Your representatives joined the effort to engage individuals across the country:

 

Local and State officials:

Montana Lt. Governor John Bohlinger (R)*

Sioux Falls, S.D. Mayor Dave Munson*

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa* (see LA Daily News article, Mar. 5, 2006)

 

U. S. Representatives:

Rep. Leonard Boswell (D - Iowa)*

Rep. John Dingell (D - Michigan)*

Rep. Robin Hayes (R - North Carolina)*

Rep. Jay Inslee (D - Washington)

Rep. Jim McDermott (D - Washington)* (PDF format)

Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D- New York)*

Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D - Mississippi)

Rep. Mark Udall (D - Colorado)*

 

U. S. Senators:

Sen. Max Baucus (D - Montana)*

Sen. Evan Bayh (D - Indiana) (PDF format)

Sen. Robert F. Bennett (R - Utah)*

Sen. Conrad Burns (R - Montana)

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D - Washington)

Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R - North Carolina)

Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D - North Dakota)

Sen. Charles Grassley (R - Iowa)

Sen. Tom Harkin (D - Iowa)*

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R - Utah)*

Sen. Tim Johnson (D - South Dakota)

Sen. Carl Levin (D - Michigan)

Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R - Indiana)

Sen. Ken Salazar (D - Colorado)*

Sen. Gordon Smith (R - Oregon)

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D - Michigan)

 

*Attended a Working Group community meeting