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ACCESS
ACCESS is a program of Accredo Therapeutics (www.accredotx.com). Helps educated consumers on Social Security Disability, Supplemental Security Income, Medicare and Medicaid. For more information please call (888)700-7010.
Center for Independent Living (www.cilberkeley.org)
Supports disabled people in their efforts toward independence. CIL encourages people with disabilities to make their own choices and works to open doors in the community to full participation and access for all.
Directory of Independent Living Centers (www.ilru.org)
Its goal is to expand the body of knowledge in independent living and to improve utilization of results of research programs and demonstration projects.
Financial Help for Children (www.cms.hhs.gov/LowCostHealthInsFamChild)
Resources from the government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Insurance: A Consumers Guide to Your Rights (www.healthinsuranceinfo.net)
The Georgetown University Health Policy Institute has written A CONSUMER GUIDE FOR GETTING AND KEEPING HEALTH INSURANCE for each state and the District of Columbia — fifty-one in all. These Consumer Guides are available at this web site and will be updated periodically as changes in federal and state policy warrant.
Insure Kids Now (www.insurekidsnow.gov)
A national campaign to link the nation's 10 million uninsured children--from birth to age 18--to free and low-cost health insurance. Many families simply don't know their children are eligible.
Medicare Assistance (www.medicare.gov)
Government resources for healthcare and prescription assistance.
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