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HEALTH REFORM: Health Advocacy Group Hosts New Web Site for the Non-Wonk
The health advocacy group Families USA has created a new website Stand Up for HealthCare aimed at ordinary people who may not understand all the intricacies of health economics, but who know our country needs a change. Families is advocating a hybrid system of public and private health plan options, subsidies for working families who can't afford health insurance, rules to make the insurance marketplace fairer, and a health care system that includes prevention and wellness instead of the current system geared toward acute illness. As Families' executive director Ron Pollack noted, health reform won't happen without people telling politicians they want it to happen. Check it out.
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