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Welcome!
Twenty-five years ago, a small group of health care and policy professionals formed the Health
and Medicine Policy Research Group as an independent, not-for profit
research and advocacy institute with a focus on Illinois public health
and care for the poor and under-served.
We decided at that
time to remain independent of any and all institutions, public and private,
knowing that doing so would ensure our poverty, but mindful that it
would also guarantee our freedom to take on unpopular causes and to
advance heretical ideas. Of our poverty we are not so proud, but of
our independence we are very proud indeed. It has enabled us to become
a respected consensus-builder, educator, and broker of policy ideas
in the community, in the state legislature, and in the state's major
academic institutions.
As we have grown,
we have taken on a wider variety of issues - women's health, prison
health, welfare reform, and long-term care reform - but our commitment
to our founding values - a world where every citizen has access to affordable,
quality health care - has never wavered.
I hope you will take the time to enter our domain and see what we have been up to; and
I hope, too, that you will share your good ideas with us. We can never
have too many of those.
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