As health care is quickly being priced out of reach for Rhode Island’s working families, 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.

Fair Share Health Care would level the playing field for large corporations in Rhode Island by ensuring that very large corporations with over 1,000 employees pay a percentage of their payroll on their employees’ health care or pay into a state fund to cover more Rhode Islanders.

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.

Representative Amy Rice and Lt. Governor Charles Fogarty will join Rhode Island for Health Care, AFL-CIO, and the United Food and Commercial Workers in announcing support of the Fair Share Health Care Act at 3:00 pm on Wednesday. 

WHAT: The Fair Share Health Care Act will be introduced and elected officials and health care organizations will join together to announce their support for the legislation. 

WHEN: Wednesday, January 11 at 3:00 pm

WHO:  Representative Amy Rice; Lt. Governor Charles Fogarty; Ann Rhodes, Rhode Island for Health Care; Peter Derouen, United Food and Commercial Workers

WHERE:  State House Rotunda