National Coalition on Health Care calls for universal coverage

May 25, 2005

“A coalition of more than 150 major corporations, unions, healthcare organizations, religious groups, and pension providers representing more than 150 million Americans came together this week to tell Congress and the president that they’re focusing on the wrong issue.

The healthcare system is in crisis today. Social Security is not,” says Henry Simmons, president of the National Coalition on Health Care in Washington. “Healthcare is a far more serious, immediate, and destructive problem than Social Security.”