Join the health care discussion today. We've set up a blog (blog.chwHEALTH.org) to serve as an interactive venue for the ongoing health care conversation. We want you to contribute your viewpoint and share your insights. If we can harness the collective brainpower of our communities' best and brightest, who knows what we might accomplish.

In light of ever increasing health care costs and increasing numbers of people without health insurance coverage, Harry and Louise urge the next President and Congress to put health care at the top of the domestic agenda.

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Advocacy for those who are poor and vulnerable is a mission imperative for Catholic Healthcare West. A primary focus of our efforts to influence public policy is a call for comprehensive health care reform guided by these principles:

Universal Access:  Health care is a basic human right and should be available to all.
Stable Financing:  Financing should be sufficient to assure that access is sustainable.
Improved Quality:  An appropriate continuum of health care services should be provided in a compassionate manner while being measured and reported.
Improved Accountability:  Government should be accountable to assuring that health care is fully available, financed, improved and provided within a pluralistic system.

We also integrate our mission and values in our investment decisions and leverage our investment portfolio to promote corporate social responsibility and accountability on a range of issues that affect the broader health of the community:

• Access to health care products and services
• Access to capital for persons with low to moderate incomes
• Health and safety standards for workers worldwide
• Environmental reporting and accountability