Current Issues
America’s Health Care Crisis
Costs for health insurance is on the rise. Each day Local 888 members see the pressure for higher premiums at the bargaining table. Our employer based health insurance system is crumbling and our health safety net is being dismantled. As health care gets more and more expensive and employers either can't afford to - or refuse to - pay their fair share, more and more Americans will join the ranks of the uninsured. We need leaders with real health care solutions. Be on the look out for candidates offering only band-aid solutions to America's health care crisis.
 Anti-working Family Candidate Claim |
 THE TRUTH |
| "Vouchers, tiered benefits, fixed premiums and health care savings accounts are solutions to the high cost of health care" | Traditional health care insurance plans are defined benefit plans, where employees are guaranteed a fixed package of health benefit. In a defined contribution plan, the employer pays a fixed amount toward the premium, leaving the employee to pick up the rest on their own – even those with chronic diseases, or with sick family members. |