Appalling," said Ellen Pinney, a health policy advocate with the Oregon Health Action Campaign, a Gresham-based health-consumer nonprofit organization.
We have maintained since the beginning that imposing premiums on this population was going to result in massive disenrollment, and that it was inequitable and punitive," said Pinney, executive director of the Oregon Health Action Campaign.
The following consumer health advocacy organizations conducted free care monitoring surveys in their communities with support from Community Catalyst: Building Parent Power Hartford, CT Campaign for Better Health Care Chicago, ILL Champaign County Health Consumers Champaign, ILL Health Care Now Washington, DC Long Island Health Access Monitoring Project Long Island, NY Oregon Health Action Campaign Salem, Oregon Tenants & Workers Support Committee Arlington, VA Universal Health Care Action Network - Ohio Columbus, Ohio Contact: Jamie Shor (202)628-7772 Laurie Covens (617)275-2805 CONTACT: Jamie Shor, +1-202-628-7772, or Laurie Covens, +1-617-275-2805 both of Community Catalyst Web site: http://www.
The project had its impetus about two years ago, when an advocacy group called the Oregon Health Action Campaign (OHAC) did a study to identify barriers to health care, says Tim Miller, MA, program manager and organizer for the Salem-based group.
Maine Consumers for Affordable Health Care, Massachusetts PIRG, Mississippi Human Services Coalition, New Jersey Citizen Action, New York StateWide Senior Action Council, Oregon Health Action Campaign, Pennsylvania Alliance for Retired Americans, UHCAN-OHIO They are represented by: Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP of San Francisco (www.
