Health Care Reform Resources

The Actual Bill

The language of the actual bill, plus the bill’s history and progress, appear on:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/show

Federal Government Sites

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services site presents the most detailed information about the current health care reform initiative:
http://www.healthreform.gov/

The White House’s responses to some objections to the initiative are presented here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/

Health Care Issues

Several reliable, non-partisan sites present research and statistics on health care in the U.S.:

• Rand Corp.
  Research and analysis from the RAND Corporation.
• Kaiser Family Foundation
  Research, analysis, polls and proposal comparisons from the Kaiser Family Foundation. NOT affiliated with KaiserPermante.

Fact Checking

These two sites separate fact from fiction:

• Factcheck.org
  Maintained by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, at the University of Pennsylvania
• Politifact.org
  Pulitzer-prize winning project of the St. Petersburg Times. Search “health care reform” for a great overview, plus fact-checking on claims, rumors and quotes.

Political Party Opinions

The Democratic, Republican and Libertarian parties all have online material concerning health care reform:

• Democrats
• Republicans
• Libertarians

Conservative Media and Policy Organizations

• Fox News
• National Center for Policy Analysis
• Heritage Foundation

Liberal Media and Policy Organizations

• MSNBC
• AmericanProgress.org
• Brookings Institute