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More Voices from AFL-CIO Health Care Survey and Other Health Care Reform News

by Mike Hall, May 22, 2009

 
   

So far, more than 17,000 people have taken the AFL-CIO’s 2009 Health Care for America Survey and nearly 5,000 have told us their personal stories of struggles with the nation’s broken health care system. There’s still time for you to take the survey and tell your story.

Meanwhile, there are new developments in the fight to win health care reform—or, in the case of corporate health care interests and their allies, defeat health care reform.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an anti-trust investigation into the health insurance industry.

  • “Harry and Louise”—the health insurance ad campaign against health care reform in the 1990s—may be reborn in North Carolina.
  • Robert Borosage warns that health insurers and “Big Pharma” are ready “to scare the hell out of Americans.”
  • The Alliance for Retired Americans says don’t forget Medicare in the reform debate.
  • Union Plus has a new program to help working families faced with big hospital bills.

Now, here are a few voices from the Health Care for America Survey.

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