Hot Paper Topics
Health Care Reform

• Alliance for Health Reform

• Health Policy Information--includes an FAQ file, glossary, backgrounder on the healthcare system and entitlements, updates, needs assessment, and statistical data.

• Intergovernmental Health Policy Project:  Shows how individual states are dealing with medical care and financing

• Key Components of President Obama's Health Care Reform Agenda

• Legislation on Health Care - from the US Senate committee on Finance

• Managed Care -- The advantages and disadvantages of managed care plans: HMO's, PPO's, and PSO's

• Medicare: Understanding the Issue -- "providing unbiased and unparalleled research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues ranging from education to foreign policy to immigration to religion and civility in American life."

• National Coalition on Health Care -- "is non-profit and rigorously non-partisan, is comprised of more than 70 organizations"

• Policies and Regulations in place -- from the US Dept. of Health and Human Services.

• The Single-Payer Option -- from "Physicians for a National Health Program"

• State Health Facts