News Release

Progressive groups are poised to spend more than $82 million to support President Obama's goal of achieving quality, affordable health care for all this year, according to leaders gathered today at the “America’s Future Now” conference in Washington.

WASHINGTON – In response to today’s release of the annual Social Security & Medicare Trustees report, Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future, urged Congress not to bend to conservative hysteria, but to address the real root of the problem – our broken health care system and its out-of-control costs.

WASHINGTON – The Massachusetts health care reform plan resulted in nearly universal coverage but fails as a model for national health reform on a number of counts, according to a new report released today by the Institute for America's Future. The report by Diane Archer, co-director of the Institute for America’s Future’s health project, finds that the Massachusetts model fails to control costs or guarantee quality, affordable health care for all.

WASHINGTON – Economists and progressive leaders argued today that Monday’s White House “fiscal responsibility summit” should focus on continuing strategies to grow the economy through public investment and on health care reform, not on cutting Social Security or Medicare – and not on budget austerity plans that could worsen the current serious recession.

WASHINGTON – National health care reform legislation must provide consumers the option to join a new public health insurance plan that would directly compete with private health insurance plans, according to a new report, “A Public Health Insurance Plan: Reducing Costs and Improving Quality” released today by the Institute for America’s Future. The report compares the long and successful track record of Medicare, which would partly serve as a model for a new public health insurance plan, against the record of private plans, and argues that such a model is the best way to drive down costs and improve health care quality.

Health-care expert Frank Clemente joins Health Care for America Now director Richard Kirsch and Institute for America’s Future co-director Roger Hickey on a conference call with reporters Feb. 5 to release a new report showing that a public insurance option as proposed by President Barack Obama is critical to the success of health care reforms soon to be considered by the Congress.

A new public health insurance plan that competes directly with private insurers is essential to controlling health care costs and improving the quality of care, according to a new report released today by the Institute for America’s Future and the UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center on Health, Economic & Family Security.

The economy needs at least a $900 billion boost over the next two years, according to a detailed economic recovery plan released today by more than a hundred economists and dozens of labor and public interest leaders who represent more than 20 million Americans.

Twenty-six out of the 29 Democratic candidates who won seats previously held by Republicans in the House and Senate championed bold progressive economic positions, according to a new report released today by the Campaign for America’s Future. The report shows that these progressive candidates’ victories represent a swing to the left of 34 votes in the House and 10 in the Senate, reflecting a clear mandate for progressive change.

The Campaign for America’s Future launched an economic war room today to help frame the ongoing debate as the economy changes at an increasing pace and continues to get worse for millions of Americans. The operation will deliver daily poll-tested talking points tying the latest research by think tanks like the EPI Policy Center to the latest opinion research by top strategists.