Richard Kirsch is Health Care for America Now’s National Campaign Manager and brings to DC more than 20 years’ experience in health care reform and grassroots organization. As Executive Director of Citizen Action, Kirsch spent 22 years helping lead successful campaigns to establish programs that now provide affordable, comprehensive health coverage to more than 1 million working families in New York. Kirsch is an author of New York's Managed Care Bill of Rights legislation and is also the author of several studies on health care reform including the
Managed Care Bill of Rights: A Health Care Policy Guide for Consumer Advocates; the financing of universal health care; health and health system global budgeting; and risk management. In June 1995, Kirsch received the New York Statewide Senior Action Council Human Services Advocacy Award for "his vision, boldness and relentless dedication in pursuit of health care for all," and Kirsch was honored by Families USA in January 2001 as National Health Care Consumer Advocate of the Year.
Richard Kirsch is Health Care for America Now’s National Campaign Manager and brings to DC more than 20 years’ experience in health care reform and grassroots organization. As Executive Director of Citizen Action, Kirsch spent 22 years helping lead successful campaigns to establish programs that now provide affordable, comprehensive health coverage to more than 1 million working families in New York. Kirsch is an author of New York's Managed Care Bill of Rights legislation and is also the author of several studies on health care reform including the Managed Care Bill of Rights: A Health Care Policy Guide for Consumer Advocates; the financing of universal health care; health and health system global budgeting; and risk management. In June 1995, Kirsch received the New York Statewide Senior Action Council Human Services Advocacy Award for "his vision, boldness and relentless dedication in pursuit of health care for all," and Kirsch was honored by Families USA in January 2001 as National Health Care Consumer Advocate of the Year.
