What does the national advocacy group Families USA focus on and do you agree with what they do?”
From Families USA official website: Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Working at the national, state, and community levels, we have earned a national reputation as an effective voice for health care consumers for 25 years. We: * Manage a grassroots advocates’ network of organizations and individuals working for the consumer perspective in national and state health policy debates. Membership in the Health Action Network is free. Click here to subscribe to our Health Action Network. The network distributes timely information and mobilizes people for action when appropriate. * Act as a watchdog over government actions affecting health care, alerting consumers to changes and helping them have a say in the development of policy. * Produce highly respected health policy reports describing the problems facing health care consumers and outlining steps to solve them. (See our Pu
A national advocacy group says health insurance premiums rose five times faster than earnings in Illinois from 2000 to 2009. The report comes from Families USA, a group working to expand health care coverage. The group based its findings on federal data. Congress is considering several bills that aim to restrain costs. But benefits consultants have said if any reform is passed this year, it won’t have a major effect for a few years.
