Health Care

While the United States spends more than any other country in the world on health care, over 44 million Americans still lack medical coverage. Most working Americans rely on their employers for health care coverage, however, much of the cost burden is increasingly shifted to employees – making it increasingly difficult for employees to pay higher deductibles, premiums and co-payments.

Employees are now more at risk of bankruptcy due to catastrophic illness due to the increased burden placed on them through consumer driven defined benefit plans. Workers may find themselves without coverage and access to care as a result of health care and insurance industry mergers and the conversions of nonprofit health plans. Workers deserve better for the years of work they have contributed.