A Solution to the Health Care Crisis
America’s health care system is broken. Hard-working Americans can’t afford quality health care.
Over the past eight years, family health insurance premiums for Kentucky’s workers rose almost 3 times more quickly than earnings. On average, health care premiums rose 47.5%, while earnings rose only 16.8%.
During that same time period in Indiana, family health insurance premiums rose over 7 times more quickly than earnings. The average health care premiums rose 83.4%, compared to an 11.4% increase in wages.
UFCW plays an active role in the growing national movement Health Care for America Now (HCAN). HCAN consists of 700 different organizations and is supported by President Obama and 185 Members of Congress. American’s deserve a solution to the health care crisis that guarantees quality, affordable health care we all can count on.
Members of HCAN believe in coverage everyone can afford, comprehensive benefits American’s can count on, and our right to choose between a private insurer and a public health plan. Read HCAN’s Statement of Common Purpose.
Help UFCW get Health Care for American Now!
Visit www.HealthCareforAmericaNow.org for important e-mail alerts, to call your Member of Congress, join a local group or submit a question to President Obama’s regional health care forums.
Premiums Versus Paychecks: A Growing Burden For Kentucky’s Workers, Families USA, October 2008
Premiums Versus Paychecks: A Growing Burden for Indiana’s Workers, Families USA, September 2008
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