Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Current Health Care Reform in the United States

The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

The resulting WikiProject was not created

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Description

All articles related to the current debate on healthcare reform in the United States are in very desperate need for an overhaul and expansion.

Primary Article:

• Health care reform debate in the United States

Other major article:

• Health care reform in the United States

Some Specific Health Care Proposals:

House

• Affordable Health Care for America Act, H.R. 3962 - Passed full House, 7 November 2009
  • supersedes Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, H.R. 3200, Reported. Committees discharged, placed on general schedule, 14 October 2009.
  • supersedes United States National Health Care Act, H.R. 676, Refered to Committee, Not Reported No Action since January 2009.

Senate

• Healthy Americans Act
• America’s Healthy Future Act

For more complete list, see discussion below

Support

In addition to signing your name below, please also add your vote to the Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive. We should generate as many votes as possible to help get peoples attention.

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

1. NittyG (talk) 06:07, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Discussion

Please discuss the following on the "discussion" page (copied there)

I would have gone straight to creating a collaboration/wikiproject page, but as of now, I just want to make a proposal here to generate some support. I don't know how to start a project page yet, and it would be nice if some collaborators did that with me. NittyG (talk) 06:22, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

As I said on the talk page for article Health care reform debate in the United States, under the section "This article is an embarassment":

It is amazing that there are such dismal articles around such an important topic. This is unacceptable for wikipedia's standards on such subjects. Even articles on events that continue to unfold, such as the events surrounding the Death of Michael Jackson, are far more clear, well organized, and thorough. I am aware that this is a convoluted topic, but that is what wikipedia is best at clarifying.

I only have so much time to work on this, but will do what I can. So far I have done a minimal adding of "see also" and "main article" links that point to this article. This article needs to be drastically expanded, and the following articles among many more need to complement each other:

Major Articles

Broad:

• Health care reform debate in the United States (central article)
• Health care reform in the United States
• Health care in the United States
• History of health care reform in the United States

Some Specific Health Care Proposals:

• United States National Health Care Act
• Healthy Americans Act
• Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
• America’s Healthy Future Act

I think that the following articles should be combined into the central article. If not, they should also be overhauled and made to complement it:

• Obama administration health care proposal
• Health care reform in the United States presidential election, 2008
• Public opinion on health care reform in the United States

Some Minor Articles

• Uninsured in the United States
• Healthcare rationing in the United States
• Single-payer healthcare
• Prescription drug prices in the United States

NittyG (talk) 06:49, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.