Resources

Resources to help you navigate the changing healthcare landscape

• Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act 

Tools

• Kaiser Health News
  Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit news organization committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics. It includes a daily health policy report.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy website provides updates and perspective on health policy issues at the federal and state level as well as public and private insurance programs and issues of cost, quality, and public health and prevention.
• National Health Reform Law and Policy Project
  A project of George Washington University, this project is designed to translate national health reform legislative proposals into clear terms with a special focus on cancer.
• The Washington Post’s Health Care 2010
  This website was created to track “the national debate on healthcare system overhaul.
• ONS Budget and Appropriations Primer
  This document will help you learn more about the process, timeline and key players in the federal budget and appropriations process.

Perspective

• Healthcare Reform: What does it mean to you and your patients?
  This PowerPoint slide presentation is from an ONS 2010 Mentorship session presented by Cyndi Miller Murphy MSN RN CAE, executive director of the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation and former ONS executive director of Health Policy.
• Op-Ed Commentary: "Death Panel" Rumors Are False
  Past ONS President Brenda Nevidjon, RN, MSN, FAAN, coauthored this piece on CNN.com.
• Sick Around the World
  This PBS “Frontline” report presents the healthcare systems of five capitalist democracies and how they do it.