The National Coalition on Health Care is the nation’s largest and
most broadly representative alliance
working to improve America’s health care. The Coalition, which was founded in 1990 and is non-profit
and rigorously non-partisan, is comprised of almost 100 organizations, employing or representing about
150 million Americans. Members are united in the belief that we need – and can achieve – better, more
affordable health care for all Americans.
The Health Resources and Services Administration,
an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are
uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable.
California Healthline
is a free, daily news digest on health care policy and politics. It is designed to
meet the information needs of busy health care professionals and decision makers. California Healthline is
part of the California HealthCare Foundation's commitment to important
issues affecting health care policy, delivery and financing.
The
California Public Employees' Retirement System will set up a program to help public agencies pre-fund
retiree health costs.
Review the results of the 2006 Employee Health
Benefits Annual Survey comissioned by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Education Trust.
Read the text of Dr. Henry Simmons' speech "The Health Care Crisis,
the Prospects for Reform, and CalSTRS" delivered at the December 8, 2006, Public Education Health Benefits
Task Force meeting.
Review the documents presented by Anthony Wright, executive director for Health Access California at the January 19, 2007,
Public Education Health Benefits Task Force meeting:
View the Retiree Medical Benefits presentation by
Jeffrey Markov, Director of Fiscal Services of the Elk Grove Unified School District, given at the March 16, 2007,
Public Education Health Benefits Task Force meeting.
Review the full transcript of
the May 31, 2007, meeting of the state Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission. It includes testimony
from CalSTRS CEO Jack Ehnes on the results of the CalSTRS
2006 Employer Health Benefits Survey and other health benefit-related testimony.
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