Topic: Afl-Cio

While Medicare offers some support along with specialized state programs such as SCHIP (State Children?s Health Insurance Plan (see http://www.cms.hhs.gov/home/chip.asp) comprehensive private insurance for blue-collar families is a major element of today?s health care debate. In order to provide some perspective on ...

Labor leader shows some flexibility on proposed tax on high-value health insurance plansThe head of the AFL-CIO says he's willing to consider a tax on high-value health insurance plans something labor has vehemently opposed if middle-class workers aren't hurt.The comments by AFL-CIO ...

Taxing employed-sponsored health benefits, an idea getting a lot of attention as a way to help pay for the health-care overhaul, may lead to unintended consequences, James Klein, president of the American Benefits Council and John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, argue ...

3/25/2008 Print E-mail One-third of Americans -- even those with health insurance -- say high costs force them to skip needed medical care, a new survey shows.. And one-quarter of the respondents said they had serious problems paying for the care they ...

Sixteen organizations with often opposing views on health care reform announced a plan Jan. 19 to cover more than half of the 46.6 million uninsured Americans.. It would accomplish this, in part, by improving enrollment in the State Children's Health Insurance Program ...