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The Whatcom Alliance for Healthcare Access is committed to serving as a nonpartisan resource on national healthcare reform. Please visit the sites below for factual information on healthcare reform.

Helpful Websites

• Washington Insurance Blog, the official blog of Washington State's Office of the Insurance Commissioner
  
  
• Kaiser Family Foundation provides a summary of the provisions in the health reform bill, an implementation timeline, and a side-by-side comparison of other various proposals
  
  
• Healthcare reform information from whitehouse.gov.
  
  
• Articles on healthcare and a "Truth-o-meter" that rates assertions made about healthcare reform at politifact.org
  
  
• Analyses of statements made about healthcare reform at Factcheck.org
  
  
• In depth articles about healthcare and health reform issues from The Commonwealth Fund
  
  
• Information on the fiscal impact of pending legislation at the Congressional Budget Office
  
  
• Learn about healthcare legislation with the Library of Congress Legislative Database
  

 

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Healthcare Reform at a Glance A summary of provisions from healthcare reform legislation

Senate Bill full text

Changes approved by the House