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RR Steering Committee Meeting
December 11, 2009, from 3-5 PM
Murphy Institute, CUNY
25 W. 43rd St. Manhattan
19th Fl. Conference Room
New participants welcome
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Profile |
Goals & Principles |
Sponsors |
Steering Committee
Rekindling Reform: Working to Achieve Quality Health Care For All
Rekindling Reform is a non-profit joint project of 72 organizations in New York. Our mission is to encourage debate and discussion on how our country can best provide affordable health care for all.
Our mission is to encourage debate and discussion on how our country can best provide
affordable health care for all.
At the beginning of our work, we adopted six principles that are the bedrock of our vision
as to how the American health care system should be reconstructed:
- Universal and equitable coverage for all.
- Comprehensive benefits and quality health care providing a full range of
services effective in preventing illness and improving health.
- Affordable costs and equitable financing.
- Administrative simplicity and sensibly organized work.
- Accountability to the public that is to be served and to the service providers.
- A strong public health system.
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We welcome the diverse views of our sponsors as to how these principles should be
implemented. We seek to bring people and organizations to work together toward these
ends knowing that reshaping of the health care system will be the product of our
combined efforts.
2004-2005: A Record of Achievement in Advancing Health Reform
- Sponsored a forum on health issues in the 2004 campaign which took place the
NYU Medical Center
- Issued a paper showing how the defense of Social Security is critical for health reform.
- Issued a paper opposing the further conversion of not-for-profit health entities to
profit-making status.
- Together with Jobs With Justice, co-sponsored a forum on the significance of the
proposed NYC health Security Act, which took place at the Community Service Society.
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Initiatives to Advance the Achievement of Universal Health Care:
Rekindling Reform:
- Co-sponsored a major symposium on women's health at NYU together with the
Wagner School of Public Service, the Women's City Club and many other organizations.
- Collaborated with the Lewin Group to develop a framework document on three
different approaches for moving towards universal health care by extending Medicare
eligibility to new populations.
- Collaborated with the Division of Social Issues of the New York State Psychological
Association and other mental health organization in a meeting which put the spotlight on
the problems NewYorkers are having in achieving mental and physical health parity.
- Consulted with representatives of organized labor to encourage the emergence of
proposals for universal health care that build on the interests of unions and their members.
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Conclusion:
We are working hard to help promote quality, affordable health care for all. This work
involves advocacy of policy changes at the city, state and national levels. If our country
is to achieve universal health care, it will require the groundswell of millions of people.
Join us: There is a place for you in the health care movement.
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