More information on affordability in health reform from Community Catalyst:

• Affordable Coverage Must Be a Priority in Merging the House and Senate Reform Bills
• Increasing Access to Health Care for African Americans Depends on Improving Affordability during the Merge of the House and Senate Bills    
• Increasing Access to Care for Hispanic Families Depends on Improving Affordability during the Merge of the House and Senate Bills 
•  $900 Billion is $900 Billion – or is it? Gross vs Net Spending and Why It Matters

A critical component of meaningful health reform will be setting an “affordability standard” that sets an upper limit on family health care spending as a percentage of their income, including both premiums and out-of-pocket costs. The following links will be helpful for understanding the issue of affordability as well as for how to talk about the affordability issue with lawmakers and citizen advocates

• A Health Care Affordability Brief by Community Catalyst and the PICO network includes Seven Key Principles of an Affordability Standard

• An Affordabilty Fact Sheet by Families USA provides basic facts and data with regard to health care affordability

• Key Messages on Affordability provices compelling language to talk about the importance of health care affordability