Campaign for Health Care Reform

America’s health care system is structured for drug industry, insurance company, and medical specialty profits, not better health outcomes for you.

The Affordable Care Act was an historic step toward getting health care costs under control, but more needs to be done to protect its solvency as demographics change and costs continue to rise. We can do this without undermining the fundamental compact of ensuring all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care.

Passage of the federal health reform law was a historic achievement, but in Massachusetts it was a continuation of the reforms passed in 2006. Our priority now is to make sure state leaders focus on how on to deliver lower costs and better quality for consumers.

The cost of inaction to Massachusetts’ families would be overwhelming:

• If we don’t get our leaders to squeeze out the health care system's costly inefficiencies, the full cost of premiums will climb to $26,069 for family and $8,845 for individual employer-sponsored insurance by 2016.

• With these projected increases, the cost of a family health insurance policy will be equal to 41.2% of median household income.

To ensure Massachusetts continues to develop leading models of reform, MASSPIRG joined  Campaign for Better Care, a broad coalition of organizations to tackle some of the biggest challenges left in health reform — lowering the cost while promoting more coordinated, efficient and better care.