Conyers Explanation Expanded Medicare for All
January 4th, 2006 | by christine |Dear Friends,
U.S. health care is rich in resources. Hospitals and sophisticated equipment abound; even many rural areas boast well-equipped facilities. Most physicians and nurses are superbly trained; dedication to patients the norm. Our research output is prodigious. And we fund health care far more generously than any other nation. Yet despite medical abundance, care is too often meager because of the irrationality of the present health care system.
This is why I have introduced H.R. 676: U.S. National Health Insurance Act, which establishes a new American national health insurance program by creating a single payer health care system. The bill would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care program that uses the already existing Medicare program by expanding and improving it to all U.S. residents, and all residents living in U.S. territories. The goal of the legislation is to ensure that all Americans, guaranteed by law, will have access to the highest quality and cost effective health care services regardless of one’s employment, income, or health care status.
Sincerely, John Conyers
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H.R. 676 The United States National Health Insurance Act
Fighting for Health Care for All: National Health Insurance is not only the best
Answer, it is the only answer to begin eliminating Health Disparities-
John Conyers, State of the Black Union, 2005
Get more information here: http://www.house.gov/conyers/news_hr676_2.htm
