Health Care Resources - Useful Websites 2

The National Academy for State Health Policy provides a nice cross sectional view of health policy concerns and solutions at the level of state policy (often given short shrift with the overly abundant emphasis on national health policy). So often, leading indicators of significant policy shifts are developed and executed at the state level, that any health industry person would be well advised to become familiar with the key issues and possible solutions occurring at the state level. Lest we forget, it was only 2 years ago that Massachusetts broke the mold and created a universal health plan (at the state level at least) and not that long ago that state funded rationing experiments were implemented in Oregon.

The website hosts a number of policy papers, notices of conferences and exploratory topics.