Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A.

Federal Government Health Reform Initiatives:

• HealthCare.gov (information on healthcare insurance options and how new healthcare reform legislation affects you)
• Affordable Care Act Facts

Health Reform Resources (Kaiser Family Foundation)

• General Health Reform Information
• Impact of Health Reform on the States
• Women and Health Reform

Dr. Susan Blumenthal’s Articles on the 2008 U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Health Care Proposals:

1. A Presidential Rx to Improve Health (January 2009):
   A Presidential Rx to Improve Health (By: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D. and Yi-An Ko) Washington Times Edition; Huffington Post Edition
2. The First Wealth is Health (November 2008):
   The First Wealth is Health (By: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., Yi-An Ko, and Justin Mutter) Washington Times Edition; Huffington Post Edition
3. Comparison of the U.S. Presidential Candidates’ health care proposals for HIV/AIDS (November 2008):
   U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Health Care Plans 2008: HIV/AIDS Proposals – A Call for Leadership (By: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., and Melissa Shive)
4. Comparison of the U.S. Presidential Candidates’ health care proposals for women’s health (October 2008):
   U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Plans for Improving Women’s Health: A Side-by-Side Comparison (By: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D.)
5. Overview of the U.S. Presidential Candidates’ health care plans: Update (October 2008):
   U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Health Care Plans Update: A Side-by-Side Comparison (By: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., et al.)
6. Overview of the U.S. Presidential Candidates’ health care plans: Update (March 2008):
   U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Health Care Plans Update: A Side-by-Side Comparison (By: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., et al.)
7. Overview of the U.S. Presidential Candidates’ health care plans: Update (January 2008):
   U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Health Care Plans Update: A Side-by-Side Comparison (By: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., et al.)
8. Comparison of the U.S. Presidential Candidates’ health care proposals for HIV/AIDS (December 2007):
   U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Health Care Plans 2008: HIV/AIDS Proposals – A Time for Leadership (By: Susan Blumenthal, M.D., et al.)
9. Health Diplomacy: A Prescription for Peace (November 2007):
   Health Diplomacy: A Prescription for Peace (By: Susan Blumenthal, M.D. and Elise Schlissel) Huffington Post Edition; Washington Times Edition
10. World AIDS Day 2007: Electing to Fight Against HIV/AIDS (November 2007):
    U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Health Care Plans–A Call for Leadership (By: Susan J. Blumenthal and Melissa Shive)
11. Will the Next President Fight AIDS? (November 2007):
    The Candidates’ AIDS Plans (By: Susan J. Blumenthal and Melissa Shive)
12. Comparison of U.S. Presidential Candidates’ health care proposals for incorporating scientific and medical research in their health care plans (August 2007):
13. U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Health Care Plans: Scientific and Medical Research Proposals (By: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D. et al.)
14. Overview of the U.S. Presidential Candidates’ health care plans (July 2007):
    U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Prescriptions for a Healthier Future: A Side-By-Side Comparison (By: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., et al.)
15. Comparison of the U.S. Presidential candidates’ proposals for incorporating information technology into their health care plans (July 2007):
    U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Health Plans: Incorporating Information Technology to Provide 21st Century Care (By: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., Jessica B. Rubin, and Michelle Treseler)

Additional Resources and Background Materials:

• New Horizons for a Healthy America: Recommendations to the New Administration,  Commission on U.S. Federal Leadership in Health and Medicine: Charting Future Directions
• Center for American Progress Health Programs – These issue briefs explore key elements of health care reform.
• Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center: The Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group practice in the world. Their Health Policy Center webpage has updates on news and events in health care reform, as well as recommendations for health care reform principles and policy priorities.
• NGA Center for Best Practices: Leading the Way: State Health Reform Initiatives
• This issue brief explores the innovative ways states are approaching health reform to expand access to affordable coverage and improve the health care system and the health of the population.
• Center for Health Transformation
  Center for Health Transformation’s mission is to grow a movement that will accelerate the adoption of transformational health solutions and policies that create better health and more choices at lower cost.
• Brookings Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
  The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform provides practical solutions to achieve high-quality, innovative, affordable health care with particular emphasis on identifying opportunities on the national, state, and local levels.
• State of the States
  This report — conducted as part of the State Coverage Initiatives program, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that is administered by Academy Health — details state initiatives implemented in 2008 to expand health care coverage and the factors motivating such efforts.
• CovertheUninsured.org
  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has integrated the resources of Cover the Uninsured Week and the Covering Kids & Families Back-to-School Campaign to focus on demonstrating broad support for the reauthorization of SCHIP and the need to cover America’s uninsured children.
• The Hamilton Project: Advancing Opportunity, Prosperity and Growth
• Covering Health Issues