Health Care Reform Success Story: The Campaign on You Tube
Mission
The mission of West Virginians’ Campaign for a Healthy Future is to achieve enactment of state legislation that significantly reduces the growth in health care costs and guarantees affordable access to high quality health care to every resident of West Virginia.
Standards for Health Care Reform
West Virginia’s crisis of health care affordability can be solved. Significant and lasting improvement in the physical and financial health of the people of our state, our families, businesses, and communities can be achieved if West Virginia enacts state health care reform legislation that meets the following standards:
1. All West Virginians must have access to high quality health care and coverage, without discrimination or exclusions based on income, medical condition, employment status, gender, age, geography, or other factors.
2. Health care and coverage must be comprehensive and continuous, assuring that the medical and behavioral care needs of all West Virginians are met throughout all stages of life, from birth to death.
3. Comprehensive health care and coverage must be affordable to all purchasers: individuals, families, businesses, and government.
4. Wellness, preventive care, chronic disease management, and evidence-based best practices should become foundations of West Virginia’s health care system.
5. Financing of West Virginia’s health care must be a responsibility shared on a sustainable basis by individuals, businesses, and government.
6. The rising costs of West Virginia health care and coverage must be effectively contained.
7. The quality of health care must be continuously improved.
8. Health care reform in West Virginia shall not undermine existing levels or quality of coverage or care for anyone.