Over the past decade, there has been a significant shift in awareness, attitudes, and the vision for creating real health care reform in this country.  With skyrocketing health care costs and deteriorating access to affordable coverage, more and more people are demanding change for a stronger health care system that is there when they need it.

Consumer Voices for Coverage is a joint initiative of Community Catalyst and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) dedicated to boosting the enormous groundswell of activity at the state level to reduce the number of people living without health insurance.  The program supports the important role that state-based consumer health advocacy can play in promoting innovative and comprehensive health reform efforts at the state level.

Under the direction of Community Catalyst, which serves as the National Program Office for the initiative, Consumer Voices for Coverage is providing significant technical assistance and support to 12 grantees on the cusp of advancing health reform in their states.  Grantees are working to strengthen and raise the consumer voice to promote health care policies to expand coverage in their states.