Health Care Choices

American Council on Science & Health website ('a consumer education consortium concerned with issues related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle, the environment and health')

http://www.acsh.org/

Website of Families USA, 'a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans'

http://www.familiesusa.org/

Health Privacy Project website, ' dedicated to raising public awareness of the importance of ensuring health privacy in order to improve health care access and quality, both on an individual and a community level'

http://www.healthprivacy.org/

FirstGov for Consumers website, 'a "one-stop" link to a broad range of federal information resources available online,' including health information

http://www.consumer.gov/health.htm

National Council Against Health Fraud website; ' focuses upon health misinformation, fraud, and quackery as public health problems'

http://www.ncahf.org/

PA Health Care Cost Containment Council website, 'addressing the problem of escalating health costs, ensuring the quality of health care, and increasing access for all citizens regardless of ability to pay'

http://www.phc4.org/

National Consumers League 'My Health Privacy' homepage, explaining the HIPAA privacy standards that all hospitals and most health plans must follow