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Fair Share Health Care
 Find out what happened at our April 12 Lobby Day.
In April 20 business owners in the state joined with us to support Fair Share Health Care in an open letter in several newspapers across the state urging the Governor and General Assembly to pass the bill. Click here to see why Rhode Island's businesses calling for the passage of Fair Share Health Care. (PDF)
Some of the largest, most profitable corporations in the state are making it close to impossible for their employees to access the health care they need. Health care costs are skyrocketing and more and more of Rhode Island's working families and small businesses are losing their health care coverage every year.
Fair Share Health Care would level the playing field for large corporations in Rhode Island by ensuring that very large corporations with 1,000 employees or more pay a percentage of their payroll on their employees’ health care or pay into a state fund to cover more Rhode Islanders.
 Business owners like Maria Gil who are finding it difficult to offer health care to their employees support the Fair Share Health Care proposal. Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty, who supports a bill introduced by Rep. Amy Rice to create a minimum percentage of payroll that large employers must spend on health coverage for their workers.
Recent local polling shows that Rhode Island voters overwhelmingly support such legislation. Seventy-one (71) percent of voters statewide support requiring large profitable companies to either provide health insurance for the employees or pay a percentage of their payroll into a health care fund.
Fair Share in the House (PDF)
Fair Share in the Senate (PDF)
Leveling the Playing Field
Cuts to Medicaid in Rhode Island
Other Health Care-Related Legislation
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