CLC Committee: Policy Development

Group Description

From the Structure for Growth & Action:
Short- and long-term goals, strategies and action steps; explore/recommend policy/political positions; organization building (i.e., drafting bylaws). Investigate arguments for/against issues and policies developed here and elsewhere, including financial models, public opinion, historical and fiscal data, other stakeholder positions; methods of health care delivery; investigate and validate assumptions; philosophies of maintaining health and delivering care. Develop and implement programs to educate membership and general public about AM policies and positions.

Staff: Liz Baxter (liz@wecandobetter.org)

Group Type

Archimedes Movement Work Group

Terrific interactive web site for global data comparisons

Submitted by David Pollack on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 1:11pm.

At an earlier Policy Committee meeting, I mentioned the web site that was presented at a recent Oregon Health Forum conference.  That site, www.gapminder.org, based at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, is really quite impressive.  It has some off the shelf charts to compare the level of economic, health, population and other national data on any and a

My initial analysis of the OHFB report

Submitted by David Pollack on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 10:08pm.

I haven't had time yet to figure out how to use Google Docs, but wanted to share my analysis of the report, especially since some others have had a more discouraged response to it.  I may be naive or just reading more into it than it deserves, but I do feel that there is much to be supported in the report, even though there are many likely hazards and obstacles to its implementation and the si

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