Action Alert: We Need Real Healthcare Reform

Update: Thank you for your participation. A compromise agreement was reached. See http://ura-aft.org/node/371 for an article on the compromise.

The current Senate bill punishes working people by taxing our hard won health benefits, a tax that is intended to encourage employers to shift even more costs to working families, and shift coverage to high deductible, junk insurance plans.

Within three years of its implementation, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the tax would apply to nearly 20 percent of all workers with employer-provided health coverage in the country, affecting some 31 million people. Within six years, according to Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation, the tax would reach a fifth of all households earning between $50,000 and $75,000 annually.