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Edited on Fri Sep-15-06 01:30 AM by cosmicdot
Our health care system is broken, and H. R. 676, the Conyers-Kucinich bill, is the only comprehensive solution to the problem. It is also the system endorsed by more than 14,000 physicians from http://www.pnhp.org">Physicians for a National Health Program. Nearly 46 million Americans have no health care and over 40 million more have only minimal coverage. In 2005 some 41% of moderate and middle income Americans went without health care for part of the year. Even more shocking is that 53% of those earning less than $20,000 went without insurance for all of 2005. In fact, the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine estimates that 18,000 Americans die each year because they have no health insurance. ~snip~ re We Cannot Afford to Cover All Americans.FACT: We already spend enough to have universal health care. "The truth is, we cannot afford to not reform the health system." We spend about 50% more than the next most expensive nation and nearly twice per person what the Canadians do. On May 1, 2006 Paul Krugman explained in Death by Insurance how incredibly wasteful the current system is. The doctor he referenced has two full-time staff members for billing, and two secretaries spend half their time collecting insurance information on the 301 different private plans they deal with. This type of waste is easily 20%. Also consider that 98% of Medicare funds are spent on medical care. ~snip~ http://www.kucinich.us/issues/universalhealth.phpCOSPONSORS(76) Rep Abercrombie, Neil - 5/5/2005 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 5/10/2005 Rep Becerra, Xavier - 11/17/2005 Rep Berman, Howard L. - 9/12/2006 Rep Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. - 6/14/2006 Rep Brown, Corrine - 11/15/2005 Rep Brown, Sherrod - 2/1/2006 Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 12/13/2005 Rep Carson, Julia - 6/7/2005 Rep Christensen, Donna M. - 2/8/2005 Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy - 5/10/2005 Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 5/5/2005 Rep Davis, Danny K. - 5/26/2005 Rep Delahunt, William D. - 12/15/2005 Rep Doyle, Michael F. - 5/22/2006 Rep Engel, Eliot L. - 6/7/2005 Rep Evans, Lane - 6/7/2005 Rep Farr, Sam - 5/5/2005 Rep Fattah, Chaka - 5/17/2005 Rep Filner, Bob - 4/5/2005 Rep Frank, Barney - 5/18/2005 Rep Green, Al - 2/16/2006 Rep Grijalva, Raul M. - 5/25/2005 Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 5/18/2005 Rep Hastings, Alcee L. - 6/13/2005 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 5/5/2005 Rep Honda, Michael M. - 6/22/2005 Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 5/25/2005 Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 5/19/2005 Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice - 7/25/2006 Rep Jones, Stephanie Tubbs - 11/14/2005 Rep Kaptur, Marcy - 2/14/2006 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 5/26/2005 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 2/8/2005 Rep Lantos, Tom - 6/7/2005 Rep Lee, Barbara - 5/5/2005 Rep Lewis, John - 5/25/2005 Rep Lynch, Stephen F. - 11/17/2005 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 5/26/2005 Rep McDermott, Jim - 2/8/2005 Rep McGovern, James P. - 5/10/2005 Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 6/16/2005 Rep McNulty, Michael R. - 12/6/2005 Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 5/22/2006 Rep Miller, George - 5/10/2005 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 5/25/2005 Rep Napolitano, Grace F. - 11/14/2005 Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 7/25/2006 Rep Olver, John W. - 4/13/2005 Rep Owens, Major R. - 5/10/2005 Rep Pastor, Ed - 5/18/2005 Rep Payne, Donald M. - 5/10/2005 Rep Rangel, Charles B. - 4/5/2005 Rep Reyes, Silvestre - 2/14/2006 Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille - 2/8/2006 Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 12/15/2005 Rep Sanchez, Linda T. - 7/25/2006 Rep Sanders, Bernard - 6/7/2005 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 12/13/2005 Rep Scott, Robert C. - 5/25/2005 Rep Serrano, Jose E. - 5/12/2005 Rep Solis, Hilda L. - 7/12/2005 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 5/5/2005 Rep Thompson, Bennie G. - 5/19/2005 Rep Tierney, John F. - 6/15/2005 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 5/26/2005 Rep Udall, Tom - 5/26/2005 Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. - 12/15/2005 Rep Visclosky, Peter J. - 6/22/2006 Rep Waters, Maxine - 12/15/2005 Rep Watson, Diane E. - 5/5/2005 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 5/19/2005 Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 5/25/2005 Rep Wexler, Robert - 2/1/2006 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 5/10/2005 Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 5/5/2005
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