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How You Can Help [1]

Every 24 minutes, someone in America dies because they were uninsured and could not get the care they needed. Now is the time for our nation's leaders to work together to find solutions to cover the uninsured.

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The Issue [2]

Forty-six million Americans, including more than 9 million children, are uninsured. More than 8 out of 10 are in working families. Living without health insurance is a risk no one should have to take.

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REPORT: INSURANCE COSTS OUTPACING INCOME [3]

Over the last decade, wages rose 10 percent while the average cost of an individual policy increased 61 percent and an employee's average contribution increased 79 percent. Read the synopsis and download the full report.

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03 REPORT: INSURANCE COSTS OUTPACING INCOME NEW STUDY SHOWS INSURANCE COSTS OUTPACING INCOME [4]
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Thanks for Making the Back-To-School Campaign a Success! [5]
November 4, 2009
Your help made a difference! Thank you for making our tenth annual Back-to-School Campaign a success and helping to get America’s kids covered! Thanks to you, more eligible uninsured kids have the coverage they need. More than 90 percent of this year’s events offered on-site enrollment in low-cost or free health coverage programs.
Insurance Reform: Leveling the Playing Field? [6]
October 28, 2009
How different proposals stack up in terms of broadening coverage for individuals and small businesses, and their potential impact on the country.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index: September 2009 [7]
October 21, 2009
The RWJF Index rose 0.5 points in September to 96.6, from 96.1 in August.
Building Advocacy Capacity: Where Grantees Started [8]
October 14, 2009
This report describes the level of core advocacy capacity among the leadership teams at the beginning of the Consumer Voices for Coverage (CVC) program, a 12-state initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The Cost of Failure to Enact Health Reform [9]
September 30, 2009
Out-of-pocket health care costs could increase by more than 35 percent in every state by 2019, if the health system is unchanged.

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