Foundations and Healthcare Reform

The Los Angeles Times reports that several foundations and think tanks are ramping up efforts to influence healthcare reform at both the state and federal levels.  Among the organizations cited in the article are The California Endowment, a multi-billion dollar health foundation created in 1996 as part of the conversion of Blue Cross of California to for-profit status, and the California HealthCare Foundation, a nearly $1 billion foundation that also came out of that conversion.  They join what the Foundation Center estimates was more than $4 billion of funding for healthcare issues by foundations in 2006 alone, according to the article.

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