Yesterday, the Washington Post reported [1] on a recent survey by The Commonwealth Fund on the increasing strain that the cost of health care is placing on working families.

The study reports that 79 million American adults have accrued health care-related debt or are struggling to pay their medical bills and that 28% of Americans were uninsured for some time during the previous year. What the study's authors call a "perfect storm" of economic troubles affects all income levels, but hits families making under $20,000 per year the hardest-- over half in that income bracket reported going without health insurance.

The lack of affordable health care is not just a problem for the growing number of Americans facing the choice between paying for a doctor's visit and paying for food or mortgage payments-- it is a problem we must all tackle, head on. We deserve guaranteed health care coverage, and I will continue to push for it everywhere I go.

To read the study by The Commonwealth Fund, click here. [2]