Gov. Rell and CT General Assembly, Please Fix Our Broken Health Care System!

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The health care system is broken. We are paying more and getting less. It's as if the only thing rising faster than our insurance premiums are insurance company profits!
  • Insurance companies are profit-seeking entities and the less care they pay for, the more profit they make. Their business model requires them to regularly deny care...their profits depend on it. That's SICK!
  • Insurance companies decide what treatments are covered, and the good judgment of physicians must take a back seat to insurance company bureaucracy and one-size-fits-all policy. That's SICK!
  • Insurance companies make coverage difficult or impossible to get when we actually need it. If an expensive health care catastrophe arises, premiums skyrocket, making necessary insurance coverage impossible to afford. Insurance companies can cheerfully take our money when we're healthy and then drop us when we're not. That's SICK!
And so we the undersigned call upon the Connecticut General Assembly and Governor Rell to address the aforementioned problems with the health care system in the 2009 session and to pursue a solution that is aligned with our shared health care ideals below. We believe that Connecticut should take the lead and show the rest of the nation how to ensure quality, affordable health care for all.
UNIVERSAL covers us all
CONTINUOUS stays with you from job to job and in between
AFFORDABLE for our families and our businesses
SUSTAINABLE for our state's economy
HIGH QUALITY supports good health
We want to put the health of people before insurance company profits, and believe that the best way to do that is by pursuing a health care solution in line with the values listed above. We call on Governor Rell and the General Assembly to begin fixing our broken health care system in the 2009 session.
By filling out the form below, you are adding your signature to the above petition and letting us know how you would most like to be involved in the fight to fix our broken health care system.