About Americans for Health Care
Americans for Health Care, a project of SEIU, is the largest grassroots health care reform organization in the country, fighting for quality, affordable health care for everyone.
We will be involved in the upcoming presidential campaign like never before, making sure voters and candidates make comprehensive health care reform a top priority. Find out more about our current activities!
Since 2002, we have created state-based grassroots campaigns in 20 states, and we are now working with nearly 500,000 Health Care Voters across the country to make health care for every man, woman, and child a reality. Highlights of our campaigns’ work include:
Mobilizing Voters on Health Care
We have made health care a top issue in federal, state, and local elections, including Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Washington.
- Mobilized Health Care Voters in key congressional races across the country. In New Hampshire state races, 33 pro-health care candidates were elected.
- 2006 Election night polling showed health care was a top election issue for voters.
- Held Chalk It Up! Day of Action in 33 states with thousands of health care voters who called on Congress to come up with real solutions to the crisis.
Passing Legislation to Expand Access and Affordability
We have worked to pass health care legislation in Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Oregon, and Washington, DC.
- Crafted and helped pass the historic Fair Share Health Care bill in Maryland.
- Helped pass Maine’s Dirigo health plan, a landmark comprehensive reform package.
- Repealed SB110 in New Hampshire, to help reduce health care costs for many small businesses.
Creating Demand for Health Care Reform
We have built a movement of Americans who declare that health care is their #1 priority.
- Bridged the gap for health care for all with 15,000 people in San Francisco and thousands more in all 50 states.
- Registered and mobilized more than 50,000 Health Care Voters in Georgia.
- Created an unprecedented movement to push health care in the 2004 presidential campaign in New Hampshire and Iowa. Health Care Voters and nurses demanded that all presidential candidates have health care plans. Exit polls showed that health care was the #1 issue in both states.