- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
 - Offers health care information, research findings, and data to help consumers, health providers, health insurers, researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues. - Kaisernetwork.org
- Offers a variety of news and information on health policy issues, including Medicare, Medicaid, children's health, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, health care advertising, minority health, and health reform.
- National Academy for State Health Policy
- Nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to excellence in state health policy and practice. Conducts policy analysis, provides training, and more.
- UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
- Conducts research on national, state, and local health policy issues, provides public service to policy makers and community leaders, and offers educational opportunities for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
- Alliance For Health Reform
- Nonpartisan nonprofit group working to ensure that all people in the United States have health coverage at a reasonable cost.
- Web Directory: Health Policy Cyberexchange
- Department of Health Care Policy - Harvard Medical School
- Serves the nation as a source for scientific knowledge about the health care system.
- Maternal and Child Health Policy Research Center
- Conducts research and analysis on health insurance, managed care, and other financing and delivery issues affecting children.
- Milbank Memorial Fund
- Endowed national foundation that supports nonpartisan analysis, study, and research on significant issues in health policy.
- National Health Policy Forum (NHPF)
- Bipartisan education and information exchange program primarily serving federal legislative and executive agency staff working in health care and related areas.
- Protect Your Healthcare
- Works to protect consumer and employee access to quality healthcare and oppose federal Association Health Plan (AHP) legislation.
- Health-Care Reform
- Offers a plan to reform the health-care system by restructuring medical education.
- European Observatory on Health Care Systems
- Supports health policy making and the analysis of health care systems in Europe.
 Tommy Douglas Research Institute
- Brings attention to the role of both the large business sector and governments in providing for the well-being of Canadians.- Alpha Center
- National health policy resource centre offering research, training, consulting, and facilitation, with expertise in health reform, finance, Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, and insurance markets.
- Center for Health and Public Policy Studies - University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health
- Provides data and organizes convenings that support public policies to develop an affordable, high-quality health care system.
- Stanford University Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research
- Dedicated to education and rigorous investigation to guide health policy and clinical practices.
- Health Council of Canada, The
- Mandated to monitor and report to Canadians on progress being made on key issues of the 2003 First Ministers' Accord on Health Care Renewal (2003 Health Accord).
- Ontario Health Coalition (OHC)
- Activist coalition advocating a public, one-tier health care system and opposing privatization.
- Health System and Policy Division - Health Canada
- Presents national health expenditures in Canada.
- Information for State Health Policy Program - University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
- Serves as a model for state health agencies in the use of electronic communication to disseminate health information.
- Forums Institute for Public Policy
- Nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to promoting sound public policy through education, communication, and research activities.
- Kaiser Network: September 11 Aftermath
- Special coverage of the issues and debates shaping health policy since the September 11th terrorist attacks. Includes analysis of the threat of bioterrorism.
- HIPAACode.com
- Offers information and resources about healthcare terminology systems and standards.
- Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research
- Addresses the entire spectrum of clinical health policy from formation using evidence-based approaches to strategies for optimal policy implementation.
- Healthcare Crisis: Who's At Risk?
- Companion site to the PBS program examining healthcare issues in America, including insurance, managed care, and Medicare.
- Americans for National Health Care
- Nonprofit organization created to design and implement a health care plan that will cover all Amercians.
- Approach to National Health Care: Lifetime Voucher, Single Payer, and Mandatory Medical Savings Accounts
- Discusses a novel approach to national health care combining federal, fixed, lifetime vouchers, mandatory MSAs, and a safety net.
- Center for Health Services Research and Policy
- Dedicated to providing policymakers, public health officials, health care administrators, and advocates with information and ideas to improve access to quality, affordable health care.
- NCPA: Health Issues
- Features issues and analysis from the National Centre for Policy Analysis.
- Frontline: Dr. Solomon's Dilemma
- Studies the battle to achieve a quality, economically viable health care system, and profiles the financial pressures on medical practitioners when doctors wages are based on controlling costs.
- Forum for State Health Policy Leadership - National Conference of State Legislatures
- University of California, Berkeley - Health Policy Training Program
- Interdisciplinary health policy program featuring sociology, political science, and economics.
- Romanow Report@
- CHF - The Children's Health Fund
- Committed to providing health care to underserved children and their families through deleopment of primary care medical programs, response to public health crises, and the promotion of guaranteed access to health care for all children.
- DividedWeFail.org
- Nonprofit that believes access to health care and long-term financial security are basic needs that all Americans share. Includes election coverage and related resources.
- RAND COMPARE
- Project of RAND Health to provide information and tools to help policymakers, the media, and other interested parties understand, design, and evaluate health policies.
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