Unrelated to the huge corporate health insurance company, Kaiser Permanente, the Kaiser Family Foundation runs a fantastic website that has all the up-to-date data and current issues regarding the health care industry and the current debate on reform. They do three main things:

1) We are a major producer of policy analysis and research ourselves.

We serve as a trusted and independent expert voice in a U.S. health system dominated by commercial, political, and ideological interests; a place where people can turn for unbiased and non-partisan analysis, basic facts, and explanation of the biggest domestic and global health policy issues and public opinion shaping them. This is the role for which we are best known in the U.S.

2) We are a "go to" clearinghouse of news and information for the health policy community.

We operate a large-scale health news and information service on the Web and a series of specialized websites, featuring both data we produce as well as the latest and best data from others, to help to ensure that everyone has the same kind of information and access to events as insiders do. We also make a major effort to assist journalists and news organizations working to inform the public about complex health policy and public health issues.

3) Kaiser develops and helps run large-scale public health information campaigns in the U.S. and around the world.

These currently focus on HIV/AIDS, with an emphasis on reaching young people. Kaiser campaigns are based on a new model of public service programming pioneered by the Foundation -- direct partnerships with major media companies and a comprehensive "multi-platform" communications strategy that goes far beyond traditional "PSAs." Current partners in the U.S. include MTV, BET, Univision, Viacom/CBS, and Fox. Together, Kaiser's campaigns reach tens of millions of people annually, and have won multiple Emmy and Peabody awards in recent years.

This site is pretty amazing - comprehensive, non-partisan, and a must visit to learn more about this most difficult issue facing this country at this time.

Visit the Kaiser Family Foundation today!

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