Health Care

Health care reform is a general term used for discussing major health policy creation or changes-for the most part, governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place. Health care reform typically attempts to:

Broaden the population that receives health care coverage through either public sector insurance programs or private sector insurance companies
Expand the array of health care providers consumers may choose among
Improve the access to health care specialists
Improve the quality of health care
Decrease the cost of health care

Health care is still a major issue, not only for many Americans, but for our sisters and brothers throughout the world. Three of the UN Millennium Development Goals involve health care: child health, maternal health and combat AIDS/HIV. Find out the current status of these goals here: MORE

The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was signed into law by President Obama on March 30, 2010. The US government has created a helpful website to help explain the new law and how it affects each of us: http://www.healthcare.gov/

What You Can Do:

Through the UN website you can -

Send a malaria-preventing bed net to Africa.
Donate $5 to help a girl with access to school supplies, clean water, or life-saving health services.
Help end fistula, a childbirth injury affecting an estimated 2 million women in developing countries.
Donate $1 to immunize a child against polio

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