H.R 676 - "United States National Health Insurance Act" - Now is the time

[Indigo Blue]

Please read the text of H.R 676 - "United States National Health Insurance Act (or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act)": http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_cong_bills&docid=f:h676ih.txt.pdf


Current status:

H.R.676
Title: To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. (introduced 1/26/2009) Cosponsors (86)
Latest Major Action: 1/26/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR00676:@@@P

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Is your US Representative a cosponsor of H.R 676? You can find out here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR00676:@@@P. If s/he is a cosponsor, please call to thank him/her, and ask that this bill move forward. If s/he is not a cosponsor, please ask him/her to sign on as a cosponsor.

You can also contact the members of the Energy and Commerce Committee and ask that this bill move forward. You can find the Committee members’ names here: http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=160&Itemid=61, and find their contact info here: http://www.house.gov/ (at the top of the page).

Tell Congress To Pass H.R. 676 Now: http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/what-can-i-do/petitions/pnum649.php (You can send a letter to the editor here, too)

Please also contact President Obama (http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/), and let him know that you support the passage of H.R 676.

[man4allcats]

1. K&R.

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[man4allcats]

2. And once more for the team. Go, Single Payer!

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[truedelphi]

3. Yes let's K & R for the home team.

So people will not face medical bankruptcy. So people will not be side lined with years of illness simply because they cannot screpe together 2 to 5,000 dollars for a needed procedure.

So people will not be forced off insurance rolls for some "pre-existing" condition that the health insurers says they withheld, even though they didn't.

So that never again will a child whose parents are insurance holders be turned down for a life saving treatment, because the insurers deem that treatment to be "experimental."

So that never again will one executive at United Health receive a salary equal to the entire payroll of one Rhode Island hospital and its 3,300 employees.


Et Cetera.

[Kaleva]

4. Not many Reps have signed on as co-sponsers recently

Quite a few did so in the first three months after Re. John Conyers introduced his bill but it's been a trickle since. The last signed on at the end of July.

[Kaleva]

5. Sent an e-mail to my Reps via link provided.

Very easy to do!

[Kaleva]

6. kicked for the evening crowd.

[slay]

7. K&R - This is the real deal if you want true health care reform

K&R :kick:

[lib_wit_it]

8. So much better than any weakling public option.

[raccoon]

9. K&R. nt

[Orwellian_Ghost]

10. K&R

[joeycola]

11. YES.

[Eyerish]

12. Kick because I can't Rec anymore...

[Desertrose]

13. Same here...

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[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and too late to recommend.

Thanks for the thread, Indigo Blue.:thumbsup:

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Done. This is still my plan of choice, with a Public Option version of it as second.

[Kaleva]

16. kicked for the 10:23 a.m. EST crowd