Health Care Advocacy in Cleveland-area:

Community Partners for Affordable Accessible Health Care [CPAAHC]

This grassroots coalition of individuals and organizations is committed to health care issues access and affordability issues. It is staffed out of Merrick House in Cleveland OH. For more information, contact Amy at 216-771-5077.

Advocates for Budget Legislation Equality [ABLE]

ABLE is a coalition of organizations and individuals based in Cleveland that works to educate and mobilize communities across the state, to provide a citizen voice at the legislative level. ABLE seeks to bring a collective community voice around health and human services funding in the biennium budget process, budget and budget correction bills. ABLE works to get and protect necessary funding for critical health and human services that are impacting our lives. http://www.organizeohio.org/able_full.htm

Health Care Advocacy in Ohio:

Single Payer Action Network of Ohio

Single-payer means that one fund, administered by a non-profit government agency accountable to the public would make payment for all medical services. Medicare is an example of a single-payer plan. Learn more about the Ohio-wide initiative to create a Single Payer plan: http://www.spanohio.org/

Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio

UHCAN Ohio works throughout Ohio for high quality, accessible, affordable and publicly accountable health care for all Ohioans through education, empowering people and organizations, and participation in the political process.
www.uhcanohio.org

Ohio Association of Community Health Centers

The Ohio Association of Community Health Centers (OACHC) is a not-for-profit professional trade association representing Ohio's Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs, or community health centers). OACHC's Mission is to ensure access to high-quality affordable health care for all Ohioans through the growth and development of Ohio's Community Health Centers.
www.ohiochc.org

Ohio Association of Free Clinics

The mission of the Ohio Association of Free Clinics is to advocate for high quality health services for the underserved. We mobilize resources, strengthen our member clinics and are a powerful voice for all Ohioans who are underserved.  To see a listing of all 40 member clinics throughout Ohio, please click here.

www.ohiofreeclinics.org

Health Care Advocacy on national level:

Cover the Uninsured is a national initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The website offers action alerts, factsheets on health care programs by state, personal stories, and ongoing education.

National Association of Community Health Centers

Founded in 1970, the National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc. (NACHC) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance and expand access to quality, community-responsive health care for America's medically underserved and uninsured. In serving its mission, NACHC represents the nation's network of over 1,000 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) which serve 16 million people through 5,000 sites located in all of the 50 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam.

Universal Health Care Action Network

UHCAN's mission is to help build, strengthen and connect organizations and coalitions in states and nationally that can effectively engage the public, policymakers and key constituencies to achieve affordable, quality health care for all. UHCAN believes strong grassroots organizing capacity at the local and state level is essential to build the political power needed to ensure that future health reform enacted in the U.S. is consistent with these principles.

Health Care NOW

Health Care NOW is a movement for a Guaranteed National Health Insurance System in this country, quality healthcare for every human being. How do we do that? One person at a time, one organization, union, church, synagogue, mosque, community center, neighborhood at a time... Here's how we do it: By developing an empowered leadership at the grassroots who understand the issue and engage in a variety of tactics to make it happen. No one tactic or strategy will move something this big. No one organization can do it. Top down efforts have never worked and that is why, for at least a dozen years, people have been led to believe that we cannot get real universal health care in this country. People have tried over and over to get national healthcare from the top down -- but it won't work. We are the ones that must make it happen. Every other advanced nation has it, but many people are still negative about the prospect of getting it here because the media and the politicians have deemed it impossible.

We invite you to be a part of this effort.

AARP Online Action Center

The AARP hosts an online action center where people can learn about issues facing the 50+ community and contact elected officials on the topics that impact their lives.