Image source notes: Health Care Reform – The “Stakeholders” Table

 

 

 

Title: Health Care Reform – The “Stakeholders” Table http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.masscare.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/BurgerStakeholdersTable1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://masscare.org/category/op-ed/&usg=__AUTNMrdiX3PyJV6VhM7FnjLHeeU=&h=590&w=450&sz=29&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=oBOVKrgYX8jT6M:&tbnh=135&tbnw=103&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhealth%2Bcare%2Breform%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Summary: Pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, politicians, businesses,  and hospital administrations decide health care reform; not the public.

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What is it?: image/cartoon
Publication Information: masscare.org, Boston, MA 8/28/06
Author: Patricia Downs Berger
Location: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.masscare.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/BurgerStakeholdersTable1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://masscare.org/category/op-ed/&usg=__AUTNMrdiX3PyJV6VhM7FnjLHeeU=&h=590&w=450&sz=29&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=oBOVKrgYX8jT6M:&tbnh=135&tbnw=103&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhealth%2Bcare%2Breform%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
Accessed:3/11/09

Support: pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, politicians, businesses, hospital administrations, public

Audience and Agenda: Masscare.org supports a single-payer health care system in Massachusetts. They represent 500,000 people in the state. They lobby to the Massachusetts Health Care Trust Legislation for a single-payer health care system.

Usefulness: This image illustrates how special interest lobbying influences health care reform in the past.

Works cited: http://masscare.org/, http://masscare.org/organization-affiliation/ 

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