Three organizations with more than 50 million members have joined forces to demand action on affordable health care and long-term financial security in a partnership called Divided We Fail. AARP, Business Roundtable, and Service Employees International, North America’s largest healthcare union, have announced that they will work together to push the American people, elected officials, and the business community to find broad-based, bipartisan solutions to both of these issues through traditional grassroots work, advertising in national outlets and in the primary states, and online activities.
The groups’ platform is that all Americans should have access to affordable, high-quality health care, that wellness and prevention should be top national priority, and that Americans should have more affordable long-term care options. Divided We Fail is also calling for Social Security to be strengthened, an end to age discrimination for older individuals who want to keep working, and easier access to financial tools to manage money. “We all agree that the health and long-term financial security crisis in America needs to be addressed by our political leaders, and these individuals need to be held accountable for taking these issues on,” said Bill Novelli, AARP’s CEO. “Congress and the President must act soon before our options become too few and the costs prohibitive.” Read the fact sheet.
