As the health care reform debate shapes and heats up, we will post many of the reports, papers and plans from organizations and individuals. We also will provide readers with an AFL-CIO "Our Take" on the each item we post, summarizing the contents, explaining its relevancy and offering a look at health care reform through a working families lens.

• Jacob Hacker report, The Case for Public Plan Choice in National Health Reform: Key to Cost Control and Quality Coverage
• AFL-CIO take
  
  
  
• New America Foundation Announces Health CEOs for Health Care Reform
• AFL-CIO take, Man Bites Dog: Healthcare Plan CEO's Call for End to "Business as Usual"
  
  
  
• America's Health Insurance Plans report, Now is the Time for Health Care Reform: A Proposal to Achieve Universal Coverage, Affordability, Quality Improvement and Market Reform
• AFL-CIO take, What's Up With the Insurance Companies Calling for Health Reform?
  
  
  
• Congressional Budget Office report, Key Issues in Analyzing Major Health insurance Proposals
• Kaiser Family Foundation report, CBO Reports Analyze Major Health Insurance Proposals' Potential Effects on Federal Budget, the Uninsured, Costs
• AFL-CIO take, Yes We Can! Major Savings Possible in Health Care
  
  
  
• Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) report, Call to Action: Health Reform 2009
• Read the statement from AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on the Baucus Health Care Report
• AFL-CIO take, Summary of Baucus White Paper on Health Reform
  
  
  
• Center for American Progress report, The Economic Imperative for Health Reform
• New America Foundation report, The Cost of Doing Nothing: Why the Cost of Failing to Fix Our Health System is Greater than the Cost of Reform
• AFL-CIO take, The Need for Health Care Reform: Center for American Progress Report & "The Cost of Doing Nothing"
  
  
  
• Milliman report, Hospital & Physician Cost Shift: Payment Level Comparison of Medicare, Medicaid, and Commerical Payers
• AFL-CIO take, National Hospital & Health Plan Associates and Blue Cross Report Highlights Caused by Different Payment Rates Bewteen Public and Private Insurance Plans
  
  
• Read the Institute for Health and Socio-Economic Policy report, Single Payer/Medicare for All: An Economic Stimulus Plan for the Nation.
• AFL-CIO take, Single Payer/Medicare for All: An Economic Stimulus Plan for the Nation.
  
  
  
• Read the Children Defense Fund report, Summary of State Children's Health Insurance Program Legislation.
• AFL-CIO take, Summary of State Children's Health Insurance Program Legislation.
  
  
  
• Read the Main Street Alliance report, Taking the Pulse of Main Street.
• AFL-CIO take, New Study Shows Small Business Views on Health Care Reform.
  
  
• Read the Kaiser Family Foundation report, The Public's Health Care Agenda for the New President and Congress.
• AFL-CIO take, The Public's Health Care Agenda for the New President and Congress.
  
  
• Read the Washington Post article, Bloviation vs. Reality on Stimulus Health-Care Provision.
• AFL-CIO take, Lies and the Stimulus Package Health Care Provision.
  
  
• Read the Common Dreams report, The Big, Bad Joke of Healthcare Reform.