Category: Health Care
- 03/16/10 This Is the Week This is the week we’ve been waiting for. This is the week when Democrats in Congress can prove that it is still possible for our political institutions to stand with the American people in a time of crisis.
- 03/15/10 Video: Stop Big Insurance On March 9th, hundreds of AFSCME members joined thousands of union members and health care advocates brought together by Health Care for America NOW! to perform a citizens' arrest of health insurance executives.
- 03/10/10 Greed Under Arrest Thousands of demonstrators, including hundreds of AFSCME members, participated in a “mass citizens’ arrest” of health insurance executives as they met in our nation’s capital on Tuesday to plan their continued efforts to defeat health care reform.
- 03/09/10 It's Time: Confronting Health Insurance CEOs in DC As the leaders of America’s health insurance industry meet today at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC, thousands of working men and women are urging Congress to take a stand against efforts to kill health care reform.
- 03/04/10 Best. Graph. Ever. Consider three bills — two of them passed under budget reconciliation, the third heading for budget reconciliation. Each had an effect on the fiscal health of the nation, calculated by the Congressional Budget Office.
- 03/02/10 Principled Stand? Hardly. This morning, in yet another slap to the face of struggling, out-of-work Americans, miserly GOP Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky again roadblocked measures in the Senate to extend unemployment benefits to 400,000 Americans.
- 02/24/10 The Nerve! Not satisfied with record-breaking profits of $12.5 billion last year – a whooping 56 percent spike from 2008 – the nation’s five largest insurance companies have the audacity to raise their premiums on thousands of families.
- 01/28/10 The State of Our Union President Obama made it clear last night that he will fight for jobs. He knows that we cannot lose sight of the millions of working families who are still suffering from the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression.
- 01/14/10 Insurance Industry Lies v. the American People With Congress on the verge of passing historic health care reform, opponents are apparently willing to do just about anything to stop our efforts to fix the health care crisis, drive costs down and cover all Americans.
- 01/13/10 Union Coalition Opposes Excise Tax A group of 16 unions, including AFSCME, representing nearly nine million federal and postal employees and retirees sent a letter to key leaders in Congress this week calling for the removal of the proposed excise tax on high-cost insurance plans.
