ACNM President Kitty Ernst formed a Presidential Task Force on Health Care Reform, chaired by Marion McCartney, CNM, FACNM to ramp up ACNM's presence in the health care reform arena. Read the press release.

Midwives Take Action • Join the health care reform eMidwife discussion group • Speak Out for Midwifery!

ACNM Resources

• ACNM's Issue Brief on Health Disparities highlights our concerns regarding women's health outcomes and services, and affirms our committment to continue to address inequities for women in our current health care system
• Position Statement: Health Care for All Women and Families
• Position Statement: Health Care/Managed Care Reform

ACNM is also working in coalition with other groups concerned with building a better health care system:

National Coalition on Health Care

ACNM is an active member of the National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC). NCHC is a non-profit and rigorously non-partisan coalition comprised of more than 70 organizations. It employs or represents about 150 million Americans and is the nation's largest and most broadly representative alliance working on health care reform. The Coalition's Specifications for Reform and Projections of Costs and Savings are available on their web site.

Code Blue Now! 
Code Blue Now! is a national, non-profit and non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to giving the public a voice in shaping a new health care system. It was formed in October 2003 from the ideas emerging from a national contest, Build an American Health System, and is actively working to build consensus on key principles and core elements for a new system. Terri Clark, CNM, serves on the board of Code Blue Now!

Additional Resources
National Women's Health Network - Read a featured article in the network's newsletter

Consensus Statement on Normal Birth from the UK

Questions? Contact ACNM.