Health care is a human right. We all deserve to get the care we need, when we need it. Yet private insurers deny medically necessary care over 248 million times every year.

Thanks to those of us who fought tirelessly over the decades, nearly 92% of Americans now have health insurance. Yet there is still critical work to be done, so we can cover all people through Medicaid expansion in every state and the inclusion of immigrants.

Coverage itself is not enough: quality of coverage matters. More and more, private insurers act as barriers to care by denying medically necessary treatments to increase profits.

We believe our public insurance programs must be protected and expanded. This means kicking out profiteers and redirecting resources towards providing more high quality medically necessary care for more people. Only a public system that is fully accountable to the people it serves can deliver the care we all need.

People’s Action Institute’s Care Over Cost campaign helps individuals fight back when greedy insurers deny the care they need. By publicly highlighting the failures of private insurers and holding them accountable, we build the movement for reform to ultimately overhaul our health care system.