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Single-Payer National Health Insurance.
Learn more
about this proposed system.
We endorse the Conyers/Kucinich US National Health Insurance
Act (H.R. 676). Find
out more. |
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H.R. 676 would institute a single payer
health care system in the U.S. by expanding a greatly
improved Medicare system to every resident.
H.R. 676 would cover every person in the U. S. for all
necessary medical care including prescription drugs, hospital,
surgical, outpatient services, primary and preventive
care, emergency services, dental, mental health, home
health, physical therapy, rehabilitation (including for
substance abuse), vision care, chiropractic and long term
care. H.R. 676 ends deductibles and co-payments. H.R.
676 would save billions annually by eliminating the high
overhead and profits of the private health insurance industry
and HMOs.
H.R. 676 currently has 90
co-sponsors.
Co-sponsors and bill text are here: http://thomas.loc.gov |
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ONLY three Texas Represenatives
have endorsed H.R. 676 out of 32 districts:
Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice [TX-30] - 1/24/2007
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 1/24/2007
Rep Green, Al [TX-9] - 1/24/2007
H.R. 676 has been endorsed by 299
union organizations in 43 states including 81 Central
Labor Councils and Area Labor Federations and 21 state
AFL-CIOs (KY, PA, CT, OH, DE, ND, WA, SC, WY, VT, FL,
WI, WV, SD, NC, MO, MN, ME, AR, MD-DC, & TX). |
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| 1) |
Everybody In,
Nobody Out.
Universal means access to healthcare for everyone.
period. |
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Choice.
Most private insurance restricts your choice of
doctors, other caregivers or hospitals. Under the
U.S. Health Insurance Act, patients have a choice,
and the provider is assured a fair payment. |
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Portability.
If you are unemployed or lose or change jobs,
your health coverage stays with you. |
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Uniform
Benefits.
No Cadillac plans for the wealthy and Pinto plans
for everyone else, with high deductibles, limited
services, caps on payments for care, and no protection
in the event of a catastrophe. One level of comprehensive
care for everyone, regardless of the size of your
wallet. |
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Prevention.
By removing financial roadblocks, a universal health
system encourages preventive care that lowers an
individual's ultimate cost of pain and suffering
when problems are neglected and societal cost in
the over-utilization of emergency rooms or the spread
of communicable diseases. |
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No
Interference with Care.
Caregivers and patients regain their autonomy to
decide what's best for a patient's health, not what's
dictated by a private insurer's billing department.
No denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions
or cancellation for "unreported" minor
health problems. |
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Reducing
Waste.
One third of every private health insurance dollar
goes for paperwork and overhead, compared to about
3% under Medicare, the federal government's universal
system for senior citizen healthcare. |
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Cost
Savings.
A guaranteed health care system can produce the
cost savings needed to cover everyone, largely by
using existing resources without the waste. Taiwan,
shifting from a U.S. private heatlh care model,
adopted a similiar system in 1995, boosting health
coverage from 57% to 97% with little increase in
overall spending. |
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Common
Sense Budgeting.
The public system sets fair reimbursements applied
equally to all providers, private and public, while
assuring that appropiate health care is delivered.
It uses its clout to negotiate volume discounts
for prescription drugs and medical equipment. |
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Public
Oversight
The public sets the policies and administers the
system, not CEOs making decisions based on their
company's stock performance needs |
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One
more reason...Uninsured Americans are Dying!
The
National Institure of Medicine found
that lack of health insurance is fatal, causing
18,000 unnecessary deaths each year in the United
States. Although America leads the world in healthcare
spending, it is the ONLY wealthy, industrialized
nation that does not ensure that ALL citizens have
coverage. |
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RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF
THE US NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACT
(H.R. 676)
WHEREAS everyone deserves access to affordable quality
health care; and
WHEREAS the number of Americans without health insurance
now exceeds 47 million; and
WHEREAS millions with insurance have coverage so skimpy
that a major illness would lead to financial ruin, and
medical illness and bills contribute to one-half of
all bankruptcies; and
WHEREAS proposals for “consumer directed health
care” would worsen this situation by penalizing
the sick, discouraging prevention and saddling many
working families with huge medical bills; and
WHEREAS managed care and other market-based reforms
have failed to contain health care costs, which now
threaten the international competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers;
and
WHEREAS administrative waste stemming from our reliance
on private insurers consumes one-third of health spending;
and
WHEREAS U.S. hospitals spend 24.3% of their budgets
on billing and administration while hospitals under
Canada’s single payer system spend only 12.9%;
and
WHEREAS American physicians are inundated with bureaucratic
tasks and costs that Canadian physicians avoid; and
WHEREAS Harvard researchers estimated that more than
$300 billion could be recovered by replacing private
insurance companies with a single public payer, enough
to cover the uninsured and to improve coverage for all
those who now have only partial coverage; and
WHEREAS “consumer directed health care”
adds yet another expensive layer of bureaucrats —
the financial firms that manage health savings accounts;
and
WHEREAS entrusting care to profit-oriented firms diverts
billions of dollars to outrageous incomes for CEOs and
threatens the quality of care; and
WHEREAS The US National Health Insurance Act which would
assure universal coverage of all medically necessary
services, contain costs by slashing bureaucracy, protect
the doctor patient relationship, assure patients a completely
free choice of doctors, and allow physicians a free
choice of practice settings; NOW THEREFORE
BE IT RESOLVED that ProtestHealthCare.org
expresses its support for The US National Health Insurance
Act (H.R. 676), and calls upon federal legislators to
work towards its enactment within the current Congress.
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