AFL-CIO Affiliate Offers Consumers a Prescription for Change
www.workingamerica.org/healthcarehustle/

The AFL-CIO’s Working America launched an effort today to unmask the real players behind our nation’s broken health care system and to bring healthcare consumers together as a powerful force for change.

“People in this country are distraught over the broken health care system and can’t understand why it only gets worse year after year,” said Karen Nussbaum, Working America’s director. “We’re getting hustled by powerful interests who don’t want to pay their fair share for real reform.”

Visitors to the Health Care Hustle site at www.workingamerica.org/healthcarehustle/ can vent online about their own health care horror stories. Then they can send a message to the special interest they hold most responsible for the sorry state of the system: Big Pharma, the Insurance Industry, Greedy Corporations or Bush & Co.

Each letter sent will count as a vote for which hustler has done the most to block meaningful healthcare reform. Working America will tally the votes and the winner will be the target of a campaign that puts the full force of 10 million working men and women behind a call for certain companies to change their ways. The Health Care Hustle will run through April.

With more than 1.5 million members, Working America is the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO for workers who do not have a union. It was launched in 2003.

Contact: Caren Benjamin 202-637-5018