Foundations take active role on health policy

Nonprofits have dropped their usual detachment to crusade for healthcare reform in California, opening Sacramento offices staffed by former aides to lawmakers. They have to be careful about IRS rules. Frustrated that years of financing studies and demonstration projects have not translated into widespread improvement in medicine, California philanthropic foundations and think tanks are shedding their traditionally detached stances to crusade for healthcare reform in the state Capitol and in Congress.

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