What does anyone know about HR676? There was a full page ad in the USA Today

paid for by the National Nurses Organizing Committee. Supposedly it: "provides complete medical, dental, vision and long term care; eliminates deductibles, co-pays, and hidden fees; allows you to choose your doctor, lab, hospital, healthcare facility; is completely portable and not tied to employment; is free from interference or second guessing by insurance companies."
They call it CheneyCare becuase they say every American should be entitled to the same care as our veep.
More at www.cheneycare.org
or call 1-800-440-6877

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Health_Insurance_Act

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR676:

Current co-sponsors (if your rep isn't on the list write them, I did):

Rep Abercrombie, Neil - 1/24/2007
Rep Baca, Joe - 9/17/2007
Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 1/24/2007
Rep Becerra, Xavier - 6/13/2007
Rep Berman, Howard L. - 6/15/2007
Rep Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. - 12/11/2007
Rep Brady, Robert A. - 2/27/2007
Rep Brown, Corrine - 4/17/2007
Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 11/9/2007
Rep Carson, Julia - 1/24/2007
Rep Christensen, Donna M. - 1/24/2007
Rep Clarke, Yvette D. - 2/16/2007
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy - 1/24/2007
Rep Cohen, Steve - 2/7/2007
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 1/24/2007
Rep Davis, Danny K. - 1/24/2007
Rep Delahunt, William D. - 2/12/2007
Rep Doyle, Michael F. - 3/21/2007
Rep Ellison, Keith - 1/24/2007
Rep Engel, Eliot L. - 1/24/2007
Rep Farr, Sam - 1/24/2007
Rep Fattah, Chaka - 1/24/2007
Rep Filner, Bob - 1/24/2007
Rep Frank, Barney - 3/7/2007
Rep Green, Al - 1/24/2007
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. - 1/24/2007
Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 1/24/2007
Rep Hare, Phil - 4/30/2007
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. - 1/29/2007
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 1/24/2007
Rep Hirono, Mazie K. - 7/23/2007
Rep Honda, Michael M. - 1/24/2007
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 1/24/2007
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 1/24/2007
Rep Jefferson, William J. - 6/26/2007
Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice - 1/24/2007
Rep Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. - 2/13/2007
Rep Jones, Stephanie Tubbs - 5/23/2007
Rep Kaptur, Marcy - 2/12/2007
Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. - 9/24/2007
Rep Kildee, Dale E. - 4/17/2007
Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 1/24/2007
Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 1/24/2007
Rep Lantos, Tom - 10/1/2007
Rep Lee, Barbara - 1/24/2007
Rep Lewis, John - 1/24/2007
Rep Loebsack, David - 1/24/2007
Rep Lynch, Stephen F. - 10/9/2007
Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 1/29/2007
Rep McDermott, Jim - 1/24/2007
Rep McGovern, James P. - 1/24/2007
Rep McNulty, Michael R. - 1/24/2007
Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 1/24/2007
Rep Meeks, Gregory W. - 9/20/2007
Rep Miller, George - 1/24/2007
Rep Moore, Gwen - 1/24/2007
Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 1/29/2007
Rep Napolitano, Grace F. - 2/27/2007
Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 3/21/2007
Rep Olver, John W. - 2/16/2007
Rep Pastor, Ed - 1/24/2007
Rep Payne, Donald M. - 1/24/2007
Rep Rangel, Charles B. - 1/24/2007
Rep Richardson, Laura - 9/20/2007
Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille - 1/24/2007
Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 2/6/2007
Rep Ryan, Tim - 5/8/2007
Rep Sanchez, Linda T. - 4/23/2007
Rep Sanchez, Loretta - 9/20/2007
Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 4/17/2007
Rep Scott, David - 9/20/2007
Rep Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" - 1/24/2007
Rep Serrano, Jose E. - 2/7/2007
Rep Solis, Hilda L. - 2/12/2007
Rep Sutton, Betty - 3/27/2007
Rep Thompson, Bennie G. - 6/12/2007
Rep Tierney, John F. - 9/6/2007
Rep Towns, Edolphus - 1/24/2007
Rep Udall, Tom - 2/27/2007
Rep Waters, Maxine - 1/29/2007
Rep Watson, Diane E. - 1/24/2007
Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 1/24/2007
Rep Welch, Peter - 5/3/2007
Rep Wexler, Robert - 1/24/2007
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 1/24/2007
Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 1/24/2007
Rep Yarmuth, John A. - 2/27/2007

emotions and hair cuts and other crap

works at a hospital and I work in the health care industry and we both think this is the way to go, even if it brings economic hardship on us. It is doing what is right over what is profitable.

But they wont. The doctors in the US are making way too much money off this system to want to change it.

vision corrective surgery as "cosmetic". I don't get this at all. Pretending glasses aren't outdated and borderline barbaric is like giving someone a crutch because they broke their Achilles tendon. Better options exist, and they should be covered.

and it doesn't cover laser eye surgery. Why would you expect a national healthcare plan to cover them?

I've always thought that the insurance industries refusal to cover laser corrective surgery was BS. I'm just shocked and saddened to see HR676 pull the same dirty trick.

that there is only a finite amount of dollars for healthcare.
Right now, I pay a small fortune for my insurance and theoretically, it SHOULD cover anything I want.
However, in a system that is designed for ALL--I can surely see that any "vanity" procedures would not be covered.
I would rather, as a whole, make sure every man, woman, and child had the insurance they needed to cover their healthcare, even at the expense of any vanity surgery that I might want to have.

correction for a 15 percent discount of 5 percent off any promotional price for laser vision correction surgery.

Instead of calling it single-payer, universal-access health care -- which most people don't have a clue about -- why not go the shameless route and try to get something passed on raw emotion for a change? Nothing else seems to work.

Cigna has handed us the opportunity to go the same route with single-payer, or HR 676, or whatever the hell it's called.

So let's call it "Nataline's Law" after the kid they killed by denial-of-coverage a couple of weeks ago. Then, not only does single-payer have a face, but every time some apologist for the current for-profit disaster tries to insult the alternative, they're stuck invoking her name yet again.

I fail to see how this could be any less effective than what we're doing now.

We have things like "Amber alerts" and "Megan's Law" and "The Ryan White CARE Act" because people respond more readily to emotional issues than to the straight story. Suppose Amber Alerts were known as "kidnapped kid phone trees." Think they'd get the attention they get now?


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Representative Conyers' page on it:http://www.house.gov/conyers/news_hr676.htm

PNHP info on it:http://www.pnhp.org/publications/the_national_health_insurance_bill_hr_676.php

What we need is enough Democrats in Congress to enact it.