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Thank Your Representative for Health Reform!

On March 22nd, 219 Members of the House of Representatives helped make health reform the law of the land. Everyone of them now faces the strong enmity of special interests. Tell them they did the right thing.

Overview

For years, Americans have paid more and more but got less and less when it came to health care. It's happened because America’s health care system is structured for the benefit of drug industry, insurance company, and medical specialty profits, not for consumers and patients.

With your help, U.S. PIRG won federal health reform legislation that can, if properly implemented, begin to deliver the increased security and relief from rising costs that Americans need.

But our work is far from complete.

The same special interests who opposed strong reform are now working to weaken and cripple its implementation.

U.S. PIRG will be there to ensure reform succeeds at:

• Stopping insurance companies from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions.

• Trimming costly red tape and overhead through simplified insurance forms, information technology and insurer-efficiency standards.

• Incentivizing preventive and high-quality care from your provider that keeps you well, not just endless tests, procedures and emergency room visits after you get sick.

• Giving every patient and doctor the most up-to-date information on which treatments and medicines work best.

• Allowing Americans, who don't have quality employer-provided coverage, to enroll in the kind of plans Members of Congress have through a new health insurance exchange.

Our Coalition

At the national level, U.S. PIRG participates in these coalitions:

Health Care for America NOW!, is a national grassroots coalition of unions, citizen groups, and advocacy organizations organizing millions of Americans to win a guarantee of quality, affordable health care for all.

The National Coalition on Health Care, is comprised of more than 70 organizations, employing or representing about 150 million Americans. Members, including businesses, pension funds, unions, consumer groups, and health care provider groups are united in the belief that we need better, more affordable health care for all Americans.