Campaign for Single Payer Health Insurance

I feel compelled to send this blog entry again after having recently watched an excellent, yet disturbing, Bill Moyers program connecting the dots between Wall Street and the for profit health insurance industry. I implore you to watch this 1 hour video which will, without a doubt, convince you that the blood sucking leeches of private health insurance need to be excised from health care delivery in favor of a single payer national health insurance plan. The insurance and pharmaceutical companies' well financed propaganda machine together with their compliant congressional sycophants are currently hijacking health care reform. Sitting back and letting President Obama and Congress drop the ball on real reform is simply not an option. Contact the White House and your representatives and demand that they support single payer health insurance.

"The U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, $7,129 per capita. Yet our system performs poorly in comparison and still leaves 45.7 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered. This is because private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $350 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans."

The above quote is taken from the home page of the Physicians for a National Health Program, an excellent resource for those interested in the long overdue goal of single payer health insurance in America. Other useful websites are Healthcare-NOW! and Single Payer Action.

You've probably heard a lot of talk lately about enacting some sort of health care reform. But did you know there is a bill in congress right now that would enact single payer health care? It is H.R. 676 and has 78 co-sponsors, more than any other health care reform bill. It should come as no surprise that most people are unaware of the existence of this bill and its broad congressional support (Senate companion bill is S. 703).

Enacting single payer health care will require immense citizen initiative to overcome lobbying efforts, campaign contributions, and propaganda misinformation scare tactics from the insurance and pharmaceutical industries whose only interests are their obscene profits. Write your representative and urge them to support the United States National Health Care Act (H.R. 676). Click here to view a sample letter. Most importantly, TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS CAMPAIGN.

Thank you for your attention and efforts.

Jon

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