“We are business owners who believe our health insurance costs should not increase every year by double digits. Our payments to profiteering health insurers have swelled as our employees have been offered worse health care coverage. At our companies, rising costs paired with declining performance is unacceptable. So why should we accept this exploitation of our companies from health insurers?”
Business for Medicare for All
We are business owners who believe our health insurance costs should not increase every year by double digits. Our payments to profiteering health insurers have swelled as our employees have been offered worse health care coverage. At our companies, rising costs paired with declining performance is unacceptable. So why should we accept this exploitation of our companies from health insurers?
We believe a new system that guarantees health care coverage for Americans regardless of where they work is critically important to maintain our profits, grow wages for working families, spur entrepreneurship and compete globally. It is time to cut the middle man — health insurance companies — out of our health care system and pass those savings on to employers of all sizes and their workers.
There is a better way.
These are the core principles we believe in at Business for Medicare for All. All of our members have signed on to support these underlying principles guiding any reform to how we pay for health care:
- We believe Medicare-for-All must be the top policy priority of American business.
- We believe the current profit-driven health insurance system poses an existential threat to American business.
- We believe the current system lowers employee wages and business profits.
- We believe the current system threatens American innovation and competitiveness.
- We believe health care guaranteed, regardless of where someone works, is the only business-friendly, economically sustainable way to achieve universal health care in America.
Wendell Potter – President
Launch of ‘Business for Medicare for All’ – PNHP
