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Counterintuitive Health Headlines, Pt.7 -- The coalitions and summary.

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The fifth contender group in the list is the consumer coalition category. Largely divided, they each have key health insurance/care agendas (most of them good and intercompatible). These are groups like the New York-based Commonwealth Fund, Kaiser Family group and the Robt. Wood Foundation. This confederation is only loosely tied by a few common goals, however. Headed by President Karen Davis, the Commonwealth fund has been responsible for some of the most comprehensive health insurance/care studies our country has known. The Kaisers and Johnsons have been right up there as well. Although they each have developed their own strategies and plans as to ‘a right way to do things’, their greater focus has been to deliver honest and unbiased studies and assessments on health insurance/care to the general public for us to make own value judgments. For a more complete insight on the Commonwealth Fund association, please refer to the article series entitled “Commonwealth Fund’s Most Excellent Healthcare Reform ”.

The sixth contender group in the list is the industry coalition category. The most prominent member is probably AHIP. The president of this group, Karen Ignagni claims a membership of about 1,300 private health insurers, covering over 200 million health insurance policies. They claim to be the largest largest health insurance national trade group in the country.

They were responsible for the $17 million “Harry and Louise” campaign that crushed the “Bill and Hillary” health insurance/care campaign back in 1993. Look to hear more from “Harry and Louise” in the coming days, just as we have in the last few weeks. For a more complete insight on AHIP, please refer to the article series entitled “Health Insurance; A Noble Goal ”.

This is what it all boils down to. Every American voter needs to study the facts and base their opinions and decisions of factual evidence concerning the issues. We have been given the luxury of having this wealth of information at our fingertips. Our nation’s future wellbeing will, ultimately, depend on what we do with this.