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The Health Care Justice Campaign is a project of the Campaign for Better Health Care, working in cooperation with over one hundred groups and individuals statewide.
Our goal is to make sure the General Assembly fully implements the Health Care Justice Act by enacting a plan that follows the principles of affordability and accessibility.
Together we will make it happen! Contact our staff members to find out how you can get involved today!
Jonathan VanderBrug
Health Care Justice Director
jvanderbrug@cbhconline.org
Kathleen Duffy
Events and Communications Organizer
kduffy@cbhconline.org
Beth Youngblood
Central and Southern Illinois Organizer
byoungblood@cbhconline.org
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Health Care Justice Campaign Principles
The Health Care Justice Campaign is committed to grassroots organizing efforts to insure public input in the creation and ongoing oversight of a system that responds to the health care needs of all people in our nation. The Campaign's vision of health encompasses community health and wholeness and measures high quality health care by high quality of life. Our vision of health understands the social roots of ill health: poverty, unemployment, poor housing, inadequate education, environment degradation, racism, sexism and homophobia.
As we move forward in the process of fully implementing the Health Care Justice Act, we will analyze plans based on the following principles:
Accessibilty
- Accessible for all Illinois residents
- Provides comprehensive benefits including and not limited to benefits for mental health, in-home care, dentistry and vision
- Fosters a network of health care facilities, including public health, community providers and other safety net providers
- Ensures continuity of coverage and care
- Maximizes consumer choice of health care providers and practitioners
- Addresses the needs of people with special health care needs and underserved populations in rural and urban areas
Affordability
- Is affordable (fairness) to individuals, families, businesses and taxpayers and that removes financial barriers to needed care
- Provides adequate and timely payments by all payers in order to guarantee access to providers
Quality
- Promotes fairness, quality and evidence based health outcomes
- Promotes prevention and early intervention
- Eliminates disparities in access to quality health care
- Addresses the need to have adequate numbers of health care caregivers, practitioners and providers to guarantee timely access to quality care
- Provides opportunities to involve consumers, businesses, providers and others in oversight
Cost Containment
- Promotes the greatest possible cost efficiency, spending the maximum amount of dollars on direct patient care
- Provides ease of use for patients, providers and practitioners and reduces paperwork
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