♦ GET INVOLVED!  Summary of Talking Points regarding Healthcare Reform legislation which is grabbing the summer headlines.  If you believe healthcare reform can impact your household (whether you are for the plans being proposed, or against those plans), we encourage you to contact your Senators and Congressmen.

♦ Take our Healthcare Reform Survey (Click the link for our 15 question survey).  This survey has CLOSED.  Click here to see the results.

♦ Let your CONGRESSMAN hear your feelings on this important topic.  (Click this LINK to be directed to the House of Representatives email system).

♦ Let your SENATORS hear your feelings on this important topic.

• Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
• Senator Bob Corker (R-TN)

♦ Use the letters/memos below as guides for communicating your position AGAINST the currently proposed Healthcare Reform options.

LETTER #1: Public Option Not the Right Answer

LETTER #3: TennCare is the best example of a failed “State-run” program

• I WANT TO KEEP THE COVERAGE I HAVE:   http://capwiz.com/nahu/issues/alert/?alertid=13711476
• I OPPOSE AN EMPLOYER MANDATE:  http://capwiz.com/nahu/issues/alert/?alertid=13711461
• I OPPOSE A GOVERNMENT-FUNDED PUBLIC PLAN:   http://capwiz.com/nahu/issues/alert/?alertid=13711431
• THANK YOU FOR MAKING CERTAIN HEALTHCARE REFORM IS DONE RIGHT:   http://capwiz.com/nahu/issues/alert/?alertid=13750136

Help!  Show me a SUMMARY of H.R. 3200. 

NEW = ADDED @ September 8, 2009

Kaiser Family Foundation

• Health Care Reform…Is Now the Right Time?
• The Sleeper in Health Reform
• On Health Reform, Will All Roads Meet in the Middle?
• NEW! Healthcare Costs - A Primer (2009)
  

Heritage Foundation

• The Senate Health Care Bills: $1.5 Trillion Sticker Shock
• Open Letter on Health Care (June 18, 2009)
• How a Public Health Plan Undercuts Consumer  Choice

The White House

• NEW! Reality Check Letter (from David Axelrod) - August, 2009
  
• The President & Health Care Reform - Prime Time TV (Wednesday, June 24, 2009)
• ISSUES: Health Care
• Remarks by the President at the Annual Conference of the American Medical Association (June 15, 2009)

• Initial Response to Senator Edward Kennedy (June 15, 2009)
• Follow-up Response to Senator Kent Conrad (June 16, 2009)

NEW!  Alternative Bills

• Healthcare Freedom Plan - Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) 
• Empowering Patients First Plan - Rep. Tom Price (R-GA)
• Wyden-Bennett Bill - Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sen. Robert Bennett (R-UT)
  

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

• The Case for Real Health Care Reform
• Will the Health Industry Derail Obama’s Reforms?

The Commonwealth Fund

• Fork in the road:  Choosing a Path to a High Performance U.S. Health System

Cato Institute

• Obamacare to Come: Seven Bad Ideas for Health Care Reform
• Will Obama Raise Middle-Class Taxes to Fund Health Care?
• Massachusetts Miracle or Massachusetts Miserable: What the Failure of the “Massachusetts Model” Tells Us about Health Care Reform

Other Associations/Organizations

• Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers - Health Care Reform "War Room"
• American Benefits Council - Ten Prescriptions for Reforming Health Care
• National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU)
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• Center for Health Transformation - Healthcare that Works: Answering President Obama's Challenge of Finding What Works
• Association of Health Insurance Advisors (AHIA) - RX for Health Care
• The GALEN Institute

American Medical Association 

• AMA Principles for Health System Reform

Articles/Opinions

• WSJ.com Editorial:  The "Public Plan" Would Be the Only Plan (Scott E. Harrington, June 15, 2009)
• Wall St. Journal Editorial: ObamaCare Isn't Inevitable (Karl Rove, June 25, 2009)
• Empire Blue Cross News Flash (June 26, 2009) - Public Plan Focus of Health Care Reform
  

Editorial Cartoons

• Health Care Reform (Jeff Parker - June 11, 2009)
• Re-form, Re-form, Re-form (Jeff Parker - June 25, 2009)
• The Doctor Is Out (Eric Allie - June 25, 2009)
• This Is A Miracle (Petar Pismestrovic - June 24, 2009)

Polls/Surveys

• New York Times / CBS News (June 21, 2009)
• Wall St. Journal (June 23, 2009) -Rebuttal of NY Times Poll (above)