PPACA Turns Two: Will It Survive?
March 23 marks the two-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Its passage culminated an extraordinary two-year debate over healthcare policy that helped to launch new movements for healthcare justice and challenged labor and other social movements to think strategically about what it would take to win universal, affordable, guaranteed healthcare for everyone in America. During these debates, the AFL-CIO declared that, "Whatever the outcome of the current debate over healthcare reform in the 111th Congress, the task of establishing healthcare as a human right, not a privilege, will still lay before us." Today, we call on all of labor to rededicate itself to this principle.






