History
A year before CBHC’s founding, a handful of downstate community organizations (Danville Area Community Services Council and the Champaign County Health Care Consumers) and statewide grassroots health care organizations (Illinois State Council of Senior Citizens now called Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans, Illinois Public Action Council now called Illinois Citizen Action, and the Coalition for Consumer Rights) establish the Campaign for Better Health Care to develop into the central statewide grassroots health care organization responsible for the health reform battle.
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