This health care reform is worth fighting for. It works for working families and works for America.

• President Obama’s vision of health care reform puts you and your doctor, instead of insurance companies, in charge of your own health care.
• This legislation gets a grip on health care costs that are crushing the middle class.
• The legislation will improve health care quality by curbing insurance company abuses, rewarding doctors for improving the quality of care instead of increasing the quantity of care and forcing insurers to compete with a quality public health insurance plan. This means a great deal to all of us and our families.
• Think how much easier contract negotiations will be when America gets a handle on rising health care costs.
• It even helps employers—especially small businesses that now pay the highest insurance premiums—by making it easier to provide and pay for health benefits.
• President Obama’s proposal has a strong public plan option that will keep insurance companies honest and drive waste out of the system. Even the insurance companies admit that hundreds of billions of dollars don’t go for helpful care. With competition from a strong public plan, we can finally stop them from wasting all this money.
• The Obama plan means health care will be there for you, no matter what. If you lose your job, or your kid loses his. If you get sick. When you retire. If your plant closes or your company goes into Chapter 11. That strong public health insurance option means you and your family can’t fall through the cracks. No matter what.
• And finally, the health reform championed by the president helps unions by leveling the playing field. Nonunion companies will have to pay their fair share for the first time instead of dumping their health care costs on the rest of us. It will help American businesses by keeping costs down. Keeping health costs down means more production and more exports. The Obama plan also helps industries with older workforces modernize without casting off their retirees.