Committed to Securing Access to Quality Health Care for All Rhode Islanders

In 1997, Ocean State Action created the Health Care Organizing Project (HCOP), a coalition of twenty-seven consumer, health-care provider, labor and advocacy organizations fighting for access to high quality, affordable health care.   (View HCOP Member Organizations)

HCOP is committed to building a health care system in Rhode Island that fulfills our core principles that will ensure the best for all Rhode Islanders, businesses, and health care providers.

By creating a diverse table for action, the Health Care Organizing Project (HCOP) builds connections and relationships between organizations, finds new allies and promotes a stronger vision for health care in Rhode Island. Our organizations represent all people affected by the health care system: families, businesses, patients, workers and providers.

Since its inception, HCOP has improved the daily lives of thousands of Rhode Islanders by winning creation of the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner to reform and regulate the states health insurance pans, winning legislation that mandates statewide coordinated health planning to make sure our state has a roadmap for rationally and sustainably reforming our system of hospitals, health centers and provider networks, helping to defend access to RIte Care for low-income families, supporting mental health parity and re-investments in primary care, and fighting to make prescription drugs more affordable.

Ocean State Action is a founding member of the HealthRIght policy roundtable, formed to develop a comprehensive reform proposal to win guaranteed affordable care for Rhode Islanders.  We also serve as the state coordinating organization for Health Care for America Now, a nation-wide grassroots effort to win health care for every American.

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Read OSA's report: "Small Businesses and the Health Care Crisis in Rhode Island"