Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, is working to move the U.S. toward an affordable, efficient, and high-quality health-care system under which everyone has lifelong care. CU wants to stop the wasteful use of health-care dollars by establishing an independent, national research program that makes its findings available to doctors and patients in a timely manner. CU is also pushing to end preventable medical errors and infections by committing to a national effort of public transparency and accountability throughout the health-care system. A first step in health-care reform is requiring that information about healthcare safety be collected and made available to the public. And we support the creation of a public health-plan option, perhaps like Medicare, that competes with private insurance-plan options on the quality and results of the care they offer. For more information, go to www.PrescriptionforChange.org.