What's New

On March 22, 2010, President Barack Obama brought a hundred-year struggle for affordable health care to a close when he signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

But as federal government and states are formulating the regulations and state laws that will put health reform into action, health insurers are trying their same old tricks.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has called on state insurance regulators to scrutinize any insurance increases by Wellpoint, the nation’s largest insurer, after that company was forced to roll back poorly justified 39 percent rate hikes in California.  We are keeping the pressure on to make sure that consumers see the full benefit of the new law.

Overview

Victory!

The health reform legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by the President will make health care work for our country by lowering costs for Americans and once and for all level the playing field between American families and insurance companies.

We've been working for health care reform because the current system is broken and the insurance industry is profiting at the expense of Americans. It's time for reform, and young people need to be heard in the debate.

Our priority has been to make health care affordable. The reform bill includes cost-cutting ideas from both parties, many of which were featured in our own research. In the years to come, this bill will begin to lower costs by delivering better, smarter care and increasing competition in the insurance markets. It's estimated that these reforms will cut $1.4 trillion off the deficit over the next two decades.

Most importantly, this legislation takes unprecedented steps to lower costs for families and small businesses. And at long last, insurers will be prohibited from using pre-existing conditions, errors on forms, and lifetime or yearly caps to drop your coverage or price it out of reach.

This victory did not come easily. The insurance industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars to stop reform. But we won - because of people like you.

Learn More - the immediate benefits that this new law will provide American consumers this year.