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Friday, January 15, 2010 11:58 AM

Among the myriad health care coalitions vying to influence the shape of reform, America's Agenda: Health Care for All has one of the more modest budgets and low profiles. But late last year, this union-inspired group hired one of its own board members, former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, to help get its priorities included in the reform measures in both houses.

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The group's ambition: lowering health care costs by changing how medical care is delivered--chiefly by requiring more emphasis on preventive and chronic care management services, and greater use of primary care doctors to coordinate care.

When it was first formed, early in George Bush's second term, the organization was almost entirely comprised of unions, and focused on trying to advance health care reform at the state level, devising campaign strategies for passing legislation in states, such as Vermont and West Virginia. Later, it began courting business members -- which now include PhRMA, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Textron--and shifting its focus to the federal level.

In 2008, the outfit launched an effort, underwritten by PhRMA, to help expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program. It now also boasts a bipartisan board, with the addition of former Bush Administration Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson.



Today America's Agenda: Health Care for All has a budget of more than $1 million, and is headed by a salaried board chairman, former United Food and Commercial Workers' president Douglas Dority and executive director Mark Blum, who formerly ran campaigns for unions.

Not surprisingly, the group is adding its voice to organized labor's fight against taxing "Cadillac" health plans to help finance health reform. The tax, it argued in a January 11 letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, would raise, not lower, health care costs by driving people into plans that create financial obstacles to patients' receiving preventive and chronic disease care.


Perhaps also not surprisingly, none of the group's corporate members -- save two union-affiliated insurance companies -- signed the letter.

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