JustHealth

Valuable links to resources for those who are
having problems with our current healthcare system

•  Guaranteed Healthcare
  
  Real video stories of real people being denied healthcare. An excellent site for seeing the actual damage our current healthcare system does to human lives.
  
  
•  Health Care for All California
  
  Health Care for All California regards health care as a human right and is dedicated to ensuring that all Californians have comprehensive, reliable, and affordable health insurance. Universal health insurance is critical to the health, security, and economic well-being of our country. HCA was founded in 1995. Since then our work has put single payer in the center of the debate about fixing California’s broken health care system
  
  
•  California Legislature and Executive Departments
  
  Direct connections to your local representative, state departments, and the legislative leaders and schedule.

•  Public Citizen
  
  Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts. We fight for openness and democratic accountability in government, for the right of consumers to seek redress in the courts; for clean, safe and sustainable energy sources; for social and economic justice in trade policies; for strong health, safety and environmental protections; and for safe, effective and affordable prescription drugs and health care.
  
  
•  California Nurses Association
  
  Founded in 1903, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee today represents over 75,000 members nationwide. We are the largest and fastest-growing organization of direct care Registered Nurses in the country and are dedicated to providing a voice for nurses and a vision for healthcare.
  
  Our continuing education, mentoring and professional development programs provide members with the tools and training they need to stay at the forefront of our ever-changing profession.
  
  Our advocacy for nurses and patients provides an important check to corporate domination of the healthcare debates. The CNA sponsored California’s first-in-the-nation law guaranteeing a safe ratio of RNs to patients in Emergency Rooms and hospitals and generated world wide renown for our successful fight to overturn the efforts of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the hospital industry to suspend key portions of the law. This bill has been called one of the most significant bills in the history of nursing and will have an impact on hundreds of thousands of California patients, as well as on debates about healthcare reform across the country.
  
  
•  Health Admiinistration Responsibility Project
  
  HARP is a resource for patients, doctors, and attorneys seeking to establish the liability of HMOs, Managed Health Care Organizations, and Nursing Facilities for the consequences of their decisions. We are concerned that in the headlong rush to "Efficient" Medical care, the organizations involved are losing sight of the "Quality" of the care they provide. As more and more "Incentives" to cut back on medical care are put in place by the new class of medical entrepreneurs, the patient often suffers. We feel that Counter-incentives must be applied, and they must be financial. The only such Counter-incentives available under our system are lawsuits for damages caused by excessive cost-cutting measures.
  
  
•  California Coalition for Ethical Mental Health Care
  
  The mission of CCEMHC is to advance access to quality, affordable mental health care through the coordinated efforts of mental health consumers and professionals. CCEMHC believes that effective and ethical care depends on safeguarding the patient/client - therapist relationship. To that end, CCEMHC works to protect the confidentiality of personal information, promote continuity of care, guarantee patients' right to make informed choices when selecting therapists and modalities of treatment, and eliminate the use of pernicious financial incentives which limit access to needed care.
  
  
•  Patient Advocacy Groups
  
  A large list of patient advocacy groups. Since there are so many, each targeted to different diseases, if you don't find it here, do a google search for your particular situation.
  
  
• Corpobligation
  
  Corporate social reponsibility and anti-corruption intiatives.

•  SeniorNet Mission
  
  SeniorNet's mission is to provide older adults education for and access to computer technologies to enhance their lives and enable them to share their knowledge and wisdom.
•  Healthcare Now!  Support HR676 for Single Payer and get the insurance companies out of the healthcare pocket!