AFL-CIO to Share Health Care Survey with Candidates

The AFL-CIO has launched an expansive online survey about America's broken health care system that will be shared with all presidential candidates, current senators and representatives and everyone running for Congress, as well as candidates for state and local offices nationwide.

The survey is available for the next month at www.healthcaresurvey.aflcio.org. Questions cover such topics as whether Americans are going into debt because of medial bills, whether they are skipping follow-up visits, treatments and prescriptions because they can't afford them, whether they are locked into jobs for fear of losing health insurance and what they pay out of pocket annually for health care.

Participants are encouraged to tell their own health care stories in as much detail as possible. They can submit them anonymously or have them published using their first names.

"No doubt, special interests like insurance and pharmaceutical companies will try to scare Americans into accepting the unacceptable system we have now," AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said.  "The results of this survey will keep America on track, reminding everyone of how little there is to lose and how deeply the problems run."