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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Care Access & Quality For more than a decade, New Hampshire Citizens Alliance (NHCA) has been working to gain access to quality, affordable health care for all residents of our state. We are organizing people throughout NH to create political power to change the current system to one that upholds this fundamental right. New Hampshire currently relies on a health coverage system based on private, for-profit, employer-based health insurance. This approach consistently fails to ensure access to quality, affordable health care for all NH residents. Get the facts on where NH is in terms of achieving its health care goals and join NHCA's efforts to address NH's important health care issues by participating in our NH Health Care Quality Initiative. Click here to download NHCA's report, Strengthening Quality, Expanding Access: Providers and Recipients Focus on Health Care in New Hampshire. The report offers the findings and recommendations of the NH Health Care Quality Initiative. (Adobe Acrobat is required. Click to download) NHCA Health Care Forums in the news: Activists gather to focus on improving N.H. health care, Health dollars lacking in New Hampshire Click on these links below to have a look at NHCA's other health care activities: Expanding Access to Health Care Services New Hampshire Healthy Families Campaign Protecting New Hampshire Residents' Health Insurance Coverage Tackling the Sky Rocketing Costs of Prescription Drugs |
 In New Hampshire, there are approximately 96,000 people under age 65 who are uninsured. As many as 25,000 of them are children. (NH Department of Health and Human Services, 1999) People who are uninsured are more likely to report that they did not receive care for a serious health condition (20 percent versus 3 percent of insured) or postpone care for serious problems (28 percent versus 5 percent). |
