• WebMD: Rising Costs Affect Women's Health
• Frost Illustrated: Americans Need Health Care, Not Sick Care
• Think Progress: American Health Care: The Staggering Costs of Status Quo
• Parents magazine: 25 Ways to Save Money on Health Care

• Read The Commonwealth Fund report, In Chronic Condition: Experiences of Patients with Complex Health Care Needs, In Eight Countries, 2008.
• Trends in Employment-Based Health Benefits for Workers and Retirees.
• Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: What are the Options?
• Premiums Versus Paychecks: A Growing Burden for Workers.

The AFL-CIO union movement is fighting for a unique American plan for secure, high-quality health care for all that:

• Builds on what’s best about American health care.
• Controls costs.
• Makes sure everyone gets high-quality health care as good or better than they have now.
• Covers preventive care.
• Lets people choose their own doctors and other providers.
• Government is watchdog on costs, quality and fairness and offers the choice of a public alternative to private insurance.
• Divides responsibility among employers, government and individuals.

The unions of the AFL-CIO are mobilizing a 1-million-member health care mobilization team working with a broad alliance of grassroots organizations to win progressive reform and give millions more union members the information and tools to become active players and health care voters.

• Sign the petition for secure, high-quality health care for all and stop back often to get the latest updates.
• Sign up to join the AFL-CIO's Working Families e-Activist Network and get updates on the health care campaign and other issues that affect America's working families.