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Citizens For Better Medicare Citizens For Better Medicare is a group that opposes Medicare reforms that expand the role of the government and supports the reforms offered by the National Bipartisan Medicare Commission.

Families USA Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan consumer advocacy group focusing on health care.

The Health Insurance Association of America The Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA) is a trade association representing the private health care system. Its 294 members provide health, long-term care, dental, disability and supplemental coverage to more than 123 million Americans.

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is an independent philanthropic group focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community and the general public.

Medicare and Social Security Annual Reports This government Web site offers a summary of the 2000 Annual Reports from the Medicare and Social Security trustees.

National Academy of Social Insurance The National Academy of Social Insurance is a nonpartisan mission dedicated to conducting research and enhancing public understanding of social insurance, developing new leaders, and providing a nonpartisan forum for exchange of ideas on important issues in the field.

National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare The National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare was a commission created by Congress in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The commission delivered its report in March 1999, but the 17-member panel split largely along party lines in voting 10-7 to approve a plan that would aim to reduce Medicare's costs by making it more like private health benefits. Eleven votes were needed to issue recommendations.

The National Center for Health Statistics The National Center for Health Statistics is a site offered by the Centers For Disease Control documenting a statistical portrait of the nation's health.

National Health Care Expenditures This is the Web site for the Health Care Financing Administration's National Health Expenditures report. The report measures spending for health care in the U.S. by type of service delivered (hospital care, physician services, nursing home care, etc.) and source of funding for those services (private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, out-of-pocket spending, etc.).

Physicians Who Care Physicians Who Care is a nonprofit organization devoted to protecting the traditional doctor-patient relationship and ensuring quality health care. Formed in 1985 in San Antonio, Texas, the organization now has members in every state, most of them doctors in private practice.

Rep. Charlie Norwood Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-Ga.) is co-sponsor of the Patients' Bill of Rights legislation that has passed the U.S. House of Representatives.

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