Toolkit: Working with Labor: Taking Health Care to the States and the Streets

...States and the Streets - cont.

Noting that 44 million Americans are uninsured - and nearly twice that number have had a lapse in coverage sometime over the past two years, AHC goals include:

Care that is cost-efficient and medically effective;
A core package of health insurance benefits with choices comparable in quantity and scope to those available to federal employees; and
Financing that is fair and includes employers, individuals, and the federal, state and local governments.

AHC is preparing for campaigns in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin to:

Help pass legislation that increases access to quality affordable health coverage,
Showcase good employers who provide coverage for their workers, and shine the spotlight on bad employers who don’t; and
Develop a nationwide voting bloc of millions of Americans who declare health care for all as their criteria for supporting specific candidates.

“Whenever there is a health care event/action, we’d love community support and where we have AHC campaigns and it’s appropriate, we could reciprocate that support,” Golombek says...

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