We are taking a stand to put a stop to skyrocketing healthcare costs. Year after year, CWA members have been forced to shoulder the burden of rising healthcare costs, and while we’ve fought to mitigate these increases at the bargaining table and by working with the state, enough is enough. We need a long-term legislative solution to transform healthcare – so we’re launching a campaign to do just that.
During this legislative session, CWA is developing legislation to address the healthcare affordability crisis in three main ways:
- Require affordable premiums for local government workers.
- Require cost-controls to help contain the rising prices of healthcare services and medications but protect against cost-shifting to our members, protecting all New Jerseyans
- Improve governance and transparency of how healthcare rates are calculated, approved, and implemented and decision-making when it comes to our plans and costs.
We’ve faced nearly 30% increases in our healthcare costs in the past two years. This is unsustainable – and unacceptable.
Throughout this campaign, we’ll need all hands-on deck to show up and demand these changes that we deserve. Taking on the insurance industry and healthcare titans of the State won’t be easy, and it will require action from each and every one of us.
- Join us on Wednesday, February 26 at 6:30PM on Zoom for an important presentation on our healthcare fight and what is ahead in the 2025 New Jersey Legislative Session.
- To register: Click Here
- or go to action.cwa.org/events/feb26webinar
