Guaranteed Healthcare

As our health care “system” continues to fall apart in its crisis of access and affordability, new coalitions are popping up all around us, each espousing the urgent need for “ health care reform”.  These are some of the bigger, more recent coalitions:

    •  Divided We Fail (includes AARP, the Business Roundtable, and the Service
Employees International Union (SEIU); committed to a “search for solutions to  
health care” - - -  by building on private insurance.
    •  The National Coalition on Benefits (includes more than 50 of the largest
corporations and most powerful lobbying organizations, including private health
insurers, the Business Roundtable, and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; they
lobby to keep large employers’ insurance plans exempt from regulation)
    •  Health Care for America Now (HCAN), a coalition of many national
organizations, including the American Nurses Association, MoveOn.org, and the
    Progressive  Action Network; their common purpose is to promote “an American
solution” which assures universal health coverage “through the largest possible
risk pools” for affordable health care in an inclusive and accessible system leaving nobody out; it retains choice of a private health plan.
•  Five other organizations --- the American Cancer Society’s  Cancer Action Network, the American Hospital Association, the Catholic Health Association, Families USA, and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB, which represents small business); this group is co-sponsoring the latest Harry and Louise advertising campaign, which expresses concern about cost and access problems, urging that “health care should be at the top of the next president’s  agenda.  Bring everyone to the table, and make it happen”.