Let's Insure America
In an unprecedented act of cooperation, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donahue jointly wrote a public letter published in today?s Washington Post. The letter called for bipartisanship and cooperation across the traditional battle lines between employers and employees, labor and management, and insurance companies and consumer groups, in finding a solution to the lack of universal health coverage in America. Not only are the 39 million-plus uninsured Americans two to four times as likely to experience a wide rage of medical problems and conditions as the insured, the more expensive treatments eventually necessitated by their acute conditions place a burden on the economy and society as a whole that could be avoided through early detection and treatment.
See "Let's Insure America", THOMAS J. DONOHUE and JOHN J. SWEENEY, The Washington Post, February 11, 2002