Healthcare Issues

We work to promote the right to high quality health care and the provision of affordable health care for all.

Some important aspects of health care reform are:

• Assuring affordable, quality health coverage for all
• Protecting individuals and families from bankruptcy or debt because of health care costs
• Promoting and investing in prevention and wellness
• Improving patient safety and quality of care
• Reducing the growth of health care costs by eliminating excessive private industry profits
• Maintaining coverage when someone changes jobs or loses a job
• Ending barriers to coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions
• Ensuring treatment and coverage for mental health, as well as, physical health conditions

For more information or to find out what you can do to join in this most important issue, please contact the chair of Healthcare Issues.

above:  A2u2 members at Healthcare Rally in Portland, July 2009

right:  Delene Perley meets with Senator Olympia Snowe about healthcare issues, August 2009