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ACHA Guidelines Document:
Standards for Student Health Insurance/ Benefits Programs (.pdf)

Contacts:
Jake Baggott, MLS, Chair, ACHA Advocacy Coalition, jbaggott@siu.edu

Valerie Lyon, Chair, ACHA Student Health Insurance/Benefits Plans Coalition, vl19@cornell.edu 


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Background Materials

Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s Plan to Lower Health Care Costs and Ensure Affordable, Accessible Health Coverage for All

Baucus, Max (D-MT) (Senate Finance Committee Chairman.) Call To Action: Health Reform 2009, November 12, 2008.

The Healthy Americans Act (S. 391) introduced February 5, 2009 by Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). For more info about the Health Americans Act:  http://wyden.senate.gov/issues/Legislation/
Healthy_Americans_Act.cfm

Blumberg LJ, Pollitz K. Health Insurance Exchanges: Organizing Health Insurance Marketplaces to Promote Health Reform Goals. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute; April 2009.

Daschle T, Lambrew JM, Greenberger SS. Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis. New York: Thomas Dunne Books; 2008.

Emanuel EJ, Fuchs V. Health Care, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America. Philadelphia: Perseus Books Group; 2008.

Hacker, Jacob S. The Case For Public Plan Choice in National Health Reform: Key to Cost Control and Quality Coverage. Institute for America's Future; December 2008.

Guaranteed HealthCare - a project of the California Nurses Association and the National Nurse Organizing Committee to advocate for universal healthcare reform, through a single-payer style system.

Holahan J, Garrett B, Headen I, Lucas A. Health Reform: The Cost of Failure. The Urban Institute; May 21, 2009.

Rising Numbers of Uninsured Young Adults: Causes, Consequences, and New Policies, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, United States House of Representatives Hearing on "Providing Health Insurance to Young Adults Enrolled as Dependents in FEHBP," 110th Cong. 2nd Sess (April 29, 2008) (invited testimony of Sara R Collins, The Commonwealth Fund.) Accessed March 13, 2009.

US Government Accountability Office. Health Insurance: Most College Students Are Covered through Employer-Sponsored Plans, and Some Colleges and States Are Taking Steps to Increase Coverage, Washington, DC: US Government Accountability Office; March 28, 2008. GAO Report GAO-08-389.

Young and Vulnerable: The Growing Problem of Uninsured Young Adults and How New Policies Can Help, Hearing on "Health Insurance Options for Young Adults," Invited Testimony, New York City Council, Committee on Health, April 23, 2009 (invited testimony of Sara R Collins, The Commonwealth Fund.)