The Affordable Health Care for America Act

Congressman Earl Blumenauer's website- overview, full text, and annotations regarding the Act

http://blumenauer.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1565&Itemid=167

Or, go directly to:

The full text of H.R. 3962: The Affordable Health Care for America Act (PDF)

Public Health Insurance Option

New York Times overview of public health insurance option definition, history, current issues, more

http://www.nytimes.com/info/public-health-insurance-option/?inline=nyt-classifier

My Near Death Panel Experience

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Oregon helped by Medicare change in House bill

By Charles Pope, The Oregonian October 22, 2009

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/10/oregon_helped_by_medicare_chan.html

Health care reform debate in the United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_reform_debate_in_the_United_States

Michelle Obama Pushes President's Health Care Plan: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/09/michelle_obama_health_care.html?ft=1&f=103943429

Human Rights, Homelessness and Health Care, National Health Care for the Homeless Council

Books

• Mahar, Maggie, Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, Harper/Collins, 2006. ISBN 9780060765330
• Starr, Paul, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Basic Books, 1982. ISBN 0465079342