Affordable Health Care: Good for Workers, Good for Business

by   |  June 29, 2007

To working families, it’s just plain common sense: Shifting the cost of health benefits to employees is making healthcare increasingly unaffordable. A recent study on workers with rheumatoid arthritis shows what we’ve known all of the time: In the face of skyrocketing out-of-pocket expenses, many employees forgo vital medication. Not only that, but according to this article from The New York Times, lost productivity causes employers to spend more, too. If companies aren’t persuaded by the notion that it’s a matter of simple justice for every American to be able to go to the doctor when they need to without going broke, then maybe employers’ own self interest will make them accept that affordable healthcare is good business. It’s clear that our current system poses a grave threat to the economic security of workers. That’s why AFSCME is helping to lead the fight to address this crisis. Affordable, quality health care for all – regardless of job, income or zip code – is a basic human right that must be achieved.