The nation has “an historic opportunity” to reform health care and bring down the spiraling costs that are driving families to the brink of—and too often into—bankruptcies, forcing employers to drop worker coverage and threatening the federal budget.
In a Point of View guest column at the AFL-CIO website, Richard Kirsch, national campaign director of Health Care for America Now! (HCAN), writes:
It’s not only President Obama who is on board for real health reform. All five committees in Congress that work on health care are right now joining together to write health reform bills. And 194 members of Congress have signed on with Health Care for America Now’s principles for real reform. continue reading