Health

• Additional requirements for charitable hospitals needed
• Including CHIP as a Lifeline-qualifying assistance program helps the working poor
• The most vulnerable to be harmed by automatic budget cuts in 2013
• Give patients the tools they need to control their personal health information
• Data collection provisions in health law ensure equal access and care
• Debt collectors should not use paid medical debt to determine credit worth
• Health care bill should adopt Medicaid payment parity
• Health reform should provide quick and efficient coverage for Medicaid enrollees
• Ensure “meaningful use” by giving consumers control
• Health reform legislation must lower costs for working families
• HIT cannot be successful without strong privacy protections
• Take a ride on the ‘Road to Economic Recovery’
• Project aims to protect personal health information
• Patient control of health data
• Consumer Coalition for Health Privacy