The more informed you are, the more you can help change health care for the better. Here are some additional sites that offer information about health care public policy and politics.

Health care policy news

Coverage blog from America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the national trade association for health plans, shares news and health care issues from the health plan perspective.

Kaiser Health News covers all aspects of health care news, and gives readers the option to sign up for breaking news alerts.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Coverage team provides health care updates via Twitter, helping to further their goal of ensuring all Americans have stable, affordable health care coverage.

Advocacy organizations

The Choice and Competition Coalition is a partnership of businesses, providers, brokers and insurers working to ensure that Health Insurance Exchanges promote competition and preserve consumer choice.

The Stop the HIT coalition represents the nation’s small business owners, their employees and the self-employed who are actively working to repeal the Health Insurance Tax (HIT) provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This costly, unfair and hidden tax will directly increase the cost of health insurance in the small business market and would needlessly stifle economic growth.

Open records

The Center for Responsive Politics “Open Secrets” tracks political contributions by candidate, industry and geographic location.

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) administers and enforces federal campaign finance laws. The FEC website has campaign finance reports, laws, regulations, compliance, and history of the FEC.

Trade associations

America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is the national association representing nearly 1,300 member companies providing health insurance coverage to more than 200 million Americans.

The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association serves the public interest by increasing awareness and improving the detection, investigation, civil and criminal prosecution and prevention of health care fraud.