Why Health Care For All

Quality, affordable health care should be a right for everyone in America, not a privilege for the few. But the number of people in this country without health insurance is growing. And the likelihood of losing—or not being able to afford—good health care is striking fear in the hearts of many family breadwinners. Meanwhile, the CEOs of private insurance and drug companies are raking in huge profits.

The number of uninsured people in America has shot up to 47 million, including 9 million kids, as skyrocketing health care costs are pricing care out of reach for more and more families and businesses. Employers are passing more costs onto employees or finding it difficult to offer coverage at all. Many families are one medical emergency away from bankruptcy.

Private insurance companies profit off of this broken system by avoiding insuring those who are sick, and insurance agency clerks tell doctors what treatments they can prescribe. The time is now to fix the system and guarantee that everyone has the choice of quality, affordable health insurance.