APA's Health-Care Reform Priorities
APA believes that health-care reform should be about more than insuring the uninsured. Reform should also transform the way health-care is delivered. Because behavioral factors contribute to six of the 10 leading causes of death, psychology has a key role to play in improving the nation's health.
APA’s eight health-care reform priorities include integrating psychological care into primary care, ensuring access to services, developing a diverse psychology workforce, including psychological services in benefit plans, eliminating disparities, increasing research funding, ensuring privacy of medical records and enhancing consumer involvement.
Read an APA Monitor on Psychology story on health-care reform.
Learn about the latest legislative developments related to APA's top health-care reform priorities. (PDF)
Presentation by APA CEO Norman Anderson, PhD (PDF), to the association’s Council of Representatives, on APA’s efforts around health-care reform.
Get an update on APA's health-care reform activities. (PDF)
On July 17, 2009, APA sent House committee leaders a letter
supporting key provisions of the America’s Affordable Health Choices
Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200) and suggesting improvements. (PDF)
You can also read a letter
supporting the Affordable Health Choices Act (PDF), which APA sent
to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on June
16, 2009.
Testimony by APA's Katherine Nordal, PhD, emphasizes the linkages between mind and body and the need to include psychology as part of health-care reform.
A new US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration health system reform web site invites users to join the conversation about reform. APA is leading the Working Group on Health Disparities and Health Reform. |
