We believe good, solid information is essential. An informed citizenry is the only way to create effective, successful long term change. Here are some suggested readings we think are important. Check back as we will continue to update this list. Dig in and be informed!

Quick Facts

Brush up on facts about health care in America. We reference material that has been developed by organizations that are nonprofit and nonpartisan.

• Quick facts about the health care crisis
• Health care reform and women and children factsheet

Books

• Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee (Learn More/Order from Amazon)
• Rx for Health Care Reform by Ken Terry (Learn More/Order from Amazon)
• Home-Centered Health Care by Mike Magee, MD (Learn More/Order from Amazon)
• Epidemic of Care: A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care by George C. Halvorson, George J. MD Isham (Learn More/Order from Amazon) 
• Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels  (Learn More/Order from Amazon) 
• The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr (Learn More/Order from Amazon)
• On the Take: How Medicine’s Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health by Dr. Jerome Kassierer, former Editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. (Learn More/Order from Amazon)
• The Brave New World of Health Care by Richard D. Lamm (Learn More/Order from Amazon)
• The Buck Stops Nowhere: Why America’s Health Care Is All Dollars and No Sense by Kathleen O'Connor (Learn More/Order from Amazon)

Download .PDF chapters from Kathleen O'Connor's Book: The Buck Stops Nowhere

Online References

• Snapshot: Health Care Costs 101 (California Health Care Foundation)
• Employer Based Health Insurance System At Risk (Committee on Economic Development)
• U.S. Health Care - Facts About Cost, Access, and Quality (RAND Health) 
• Health Care in California - A Policy Assessment (RAND Health) 
• National Conference of State Legislators Health Care Reform Page - Description of filed bills and Gubernatorial and other state commission proposals.
• Covering Health Issues 2006 (Alliance for Health Reform) 
• Impacts of Healthcare Reform: Projections of Costs and Savings (National Coalition on Health Care) 
• Building a Better Healthcare System: Specification for Reform (National Coalition on Health Care)