League of Women Voters of North Carolina

The Health Care Reform Advocacy Committee will be working together
with Health Care for All North Carolina to help support the "Health
Care Planning Council" bill. Rep. Insko will be resubmitting H1897
“Health Care Planning Council” in the short session. We will start by
asking members of the NC House to co sponsor H1897 “Health Care
Planning Council.” We hope that Leaguers across the State will
participate in this effort. Please look for further information on
this site.

NB: H1897 on the GA website is last year’s version. The version to be
submitted this year will have increased participation of primary care
providers, increased participation of reform advocates, increased
representation of the general public and will add a representative of
the mental health community. Principles in the bill came from your
neighbors who participated in regional forums on health care reform.

Evelin Brinich

On September 29, 2007, the LWV of Orange, Durham, and Chatham Counties together with the Clinical Lecture Series of the UNC School of Social Work hosted a forum, Health Care for Everyone: How Do We get There? As a result, eight of the attendees interested in working on health care reform formed a committee. The Health Care Reform Advocacy Committee (HCRAC) has held several meetings and developed a mission statement based on the LWVUS position on health care reform, and each member of the committee has been assigned specific tasks. For additional information about HCRAC's work please go to http://lwvodc.org and choose Health Care Reform on the side panel. The LWVNC has given their full support to HCRAC's work. The committee's goal is to establish the best ways and means to advocate for affordable health care reform for everyone in North Carolina.

Our mission is to support a universal health care system for North Carolina, which is based on the LWVUS position:

The League of Women Voters of the United States believes that a basic level of quality health care at an affordable cost should be available to all U.S. residents. Every U.S. resident should have access to a basic level of care that includes the prevention of disease, health promotion and education, primary care (including prenatal and reproductive health), acute care, long-term care, mental health care, dental, vision and hearing care. The League believes that under any system of health care reform, consumers/ patients should be permitted to purchase services or insurance coverage beyond the basic level. The League favors a national health insurance plan financed through general taxes in place of individual insurance premiums.

We need everyone's help if we are going to make a change in correcting many of the injustices in our current health care system. Contact Evelin Brinich at lwvnchealthcare@bellsouth.net to work on this issue.

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Update for 2008 Legislative Session - April 2008

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