Official Statement of Robert J. Haynes, President, Massachusetts AFL-CIO on Passage by U.S. House of Historic Health Care Reform

"The challenges we face in this country are the hardest in generations. The solutions we are forced to seek must be as bold and historic as the challenges. Nowhere is this more true than America's health care crisis.The soaring costs of health care coupled with the immorality of millions going without insurance have had too devastating an effect on our economy, and more importantly, on human lives. Something has to be done..."