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ANATOMY:

  • The Reconciliation Bill
    • Full text: http://documents.nytimes.com/health-care-reconciliation-bill#p=1
    • Overview of proposed changes:http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/19/us/politics/20100319-health-care-reconciliation.html
  • The Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962)
    • Full text: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.3962:
    • Kaiser Family Foundation Summary of HR 3962: http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/housebill_final.pdf
    • NPA Summary of HR 3962 for Providers: https://npalliance.org/images/uploads/Summary_of_HR_3962_for_providers.pdf
  • The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  • President Obama's Health Reform speech to Joint Session of Congress on Sept 9 2009
  • The House Energy and Commerce Committee bill (HR 3200)
    • Full text: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.+3200
    • Summary
  • The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee bill
    • Full text: https://npalliance.org/images/uploads/Senate_HELP_Affordable_Choices_7-15-09.pdf
    • Summary
  • Senate Finance Committee
    • “Bipartisan Six” Framework for Comprehensive Reform: https://npalliance.org/images/uploads/090509_Framework_Senate_Finance.pdf
    • Chairman Baucus's Mark of “America's Healthy Future Act of 2009): http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/medicaid-coalition-stuff/9-16-09-sfc-mark.pdf
  • Kaiser Foundation Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals: http://www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm

ECONOMICS:

  • What if Benjamin Franklin Ran the Congressional Budget Office? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-s-marks/what-if-benjamin-franklin_b_251721.html
  • Explaining Health Care Reform: How Might a Reform Plan be Financed? http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7947.pdf
  • Failure to Protect: Why the Individual Insurance Market is Not a Viable Option for Most U.S. Families: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2009/Jul/Failure-to-Protect.aspx
  • Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog: http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?cat=5

Sample Letters to Editors and Op-Eds:

  • “Reform Would Cut Costs for the Already Insured,” op-ed by NPA board member Dr. David Grande in Philadelphia Inquirer (8/13/2009)
  • “The public option: a broken health system needs it,” Star Tribune (8/16/2009)

For Your Patients:

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