Welcome to Family Health Advocate. Your Voice in Healthcare
Family Health Advocate recognizes the invaluable role you play in your family's health. Not only do you make decisions about your personal health and your family’s health, but you are also a health care consumer challenged with navigating and negotiating with the health care system.
We are here to provide information and tools to empower you as a health care consumer. Once you are equipped with these tools, you can have an impact on issues that affect your family’s health.
Your voice counts. Join us and become a Family Health Advocate to help make sure the health care system supports you. Together, we can send the message that the health care system needs to change, and it needs to change now.
We invite you to sign up for our Engaging Your Health newsletter and our Action Alerts, please also take a moment to share your story with us, and invite friends to do the same.
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Featured Issues
- AAFP President, Newt Gingrich Join Forces on Health Care Reform
If the U.S. health care system were a business, it would have filed for bankruptcy long ago. No company could survive by offering its customers skyrocketing prices, poor quality and limited access. However, that is exactly what we get in health care today. Consumers, employers, doctors and policy-makers have had enough.
Learn More- Cost of Health Insurance
Health insurance helps you pay for the medical care you need. However, health insurance has become more expensive as health care costs have risen. In fact, the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that health costs have increased 78% since 2001. The high cost of health care has created financial difficulty for millions of Americans. However, there are steps you can take to help control your health care costs.
Learn More- Preventive Care
Preventive care and wellness visits when combined with healthy life choices can keep you and your family happy and healthy. The Center for Disease Control calculated the direct medical costs associated with physical inactivity as $29 billion in 1987 and nearly $76.6 billion in 2000. They also found that regular physical activity is associated with taking less medication and having fewer hospitalizations and physician visits. Learn more at CDC's Chronic Disease Prevention site.
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