Healthcare reform

The skyrocketing cost of healthcare is having a profound impact on classified employees and other working families. That's why CSEA supports healthcare reform that is both affordable and accessible to everyone.

Real healthcare reform is the only solution
Like all Californians, school employees are being hurt by the rising cost of healthcare. Every worker should be able to go to the doctor when they or their children are sick. Yet many classified school employees do not qualify for health insurance through their employers. Those who do have healthcare are paying more and more of their incomes each year for insurance premiums, deductibles and co-payments. Increasingly, families are facing harsh trade-offs between paying for insurance and putting food on the table.

CSEA supports a single-payer system
CSEA supports SB 840 (Kuehl) and the single-payer healthcare system it would create. Under SB 840, all California residents would receive comprehensive medical benefits including hospital, medical, surgical, emergency care, prescription drugs, mental health, dental, vision, health education, skilled nursing after hospitalization and even hearing aids—all while maintaining the freedom to choose your own primary care doctor. Analysts project that a single-payer system would reduce the cost of duplication and waste, freeing up billions of new dollars for patient care and prescription drugs.

It’s not impossible. What is impossible, is to continue paying double-digit increases for a broken healthcare system.