Summary of material prepared for Organizing for America Maryland

I am working as a volunteer for Organizing for America Maryland/Montgomery County.  OFA/MoCo has created a number of strategy teams including a health reform team.  As part of the team's planning, I have put together the following list of materials, much of it comes from earlier postings to this blog. 

1) here is some key material from herndon alliance

http://herndonalliance.org/

http://herndonalliance.org/resources/what-s-new/post-passage-messaging-guide.html

http://herndonalliance.org/resources/personal-stories/implementing-the-health-law-personal-stories.html

http://herndonalliance.org/resources/countering-attacks/grid-opposing-repeal.html

http://herndonalliance.org/resources/countering-attacks/grid-individual-mandate.html

look over the entire site.  I will see what I can do to get some training from them

2) here are some postings on my blog

a) timeline

Sunday, March 28, 2010

timeline, etc

for a good timeline of what happens when, go to
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/23/health.care.timeline/index.html

b) useful summaries

i) http://healthreformaction.blogspot.com/2010/03/retirees.html

http://healthreformaction.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html

ii) this month I have several sources for good material on summaries of the bill

here is perhaps the best summary of sources

http://healthreformaction.blogspot.com/2010/04/revised-list-of-reform-summaries.html

my best source is time magazine article, also kaiser, consumer reports, and health reform.gov (that site ahs a great deal of useful material, but it maybe too much for our purpose)

here is another source that came out later

http://healthreformaction.blogspot.com/2010/05/from-medicare-new-health-care-law-and.html

iii) this link takes you to wash post article which is excellent and to the book

iv) here are a couple of good sources on budget implications for federal government and nation as a whole

feds (from cbo)

http://healthreformaction.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-health-reform-helps-reduce-deficit.html

v) nation (from commonwealth fund)

http://healthreformaction.blogspot.com/2011/01/impact-of-reform-on-national-health.html

vi) great article on comprehensive approach to health care including social work approaches. 

http://healthreformaction.blogspot.com/2011/02/hot-spotters-by-atul-gawande-in-new.html

3) some very useful newsletters include kaiser health news and commonwealth fund newsletter (http://tinyurl.com/46b85pl)

4) here is my blog

healthreformaction.blogspot.com

What Do People Misunderstand About Health Reform?

http://www.vimeo.com/20239025

this is an excellent and very useful video with survey results on misconceptions about the reform law.

see also related blogpost on herndon alliance.  

the herndon alliance

I highly recommend this site.  get on their email list. 

http://herndonalliance.org/

Many Americans Incorrectly Believe Health Law Has Been Repealed

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2011/February/24/kff-poll-americans-health-law-repeal.aspx

also see: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll -- February 2011

http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/8156.cfm

quality matters newsletter from commonwealth fund

lots of good material

http://tinyurl.com/4qko8jv

States Pushing Managed Long-Term Care For Elderly And Disabled Medicaid Patients

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2011/February/21/medicaid-managed-long-term-care.aspx

some concerns about this.  

Affordable Care Act Supports States in Strengthening Community Living

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2011pres/02/20110222b.html