Conyers: We Need Real Universal Health Care Coverage, Please sign!

The health care crisis we face today affects everyone, overwhelming America's workers and businesses. Many low-wage earners do not receive health benefits and cannot afford insurance. Higher salaried workers know that the cost of their health insurance may lead to the next round of layoffs.

More than 46 million Americans lack basic health care coverage. Millions more face high deductibles and staggering costs leaving essential care out of reach.

We can no longer seek gradual reforms or provide insurance companies with financial incentives to solve the problem. The time has come for a single payer national health care system that provides complete care to all Americans.

Since the 2006 elections, we have heard plenty of new voices calling for universal health care. Unfortunately, many of these claim to be universal health care, but are merely bandaids to the problem.

One proposal has the federal government giving billions of dollars to insurance companies to cover the uninsured. Other proposals only cover children or shift the entire burden of healthcare to employees in the form of health savings accounts.

Unfortunately, patchwork fixes like these will not work. The only way to provide a lasting solution to our health care crisis is through single payer universal health care. We must not let the movement toward universal health care be co-opted by proposals that serve to enrich those seeking to extend the status quo at the expense of true reform.

To address this need, I have introduced H.R. 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act. My bill would create a single payer universal health care system by strengthening and extending the Medicare program to cover all Americans.

Please help me enact this important legislation by signing this statement of support. (http://johnconyers.com/HR676)

We must have real reform through a single payer universal health care program if we are to solve our nation's health care crisis.
http://johnconyers.com/node/115

Single payer is the only way to go. Coverage could be improved, and extended to everyone, at no additional net cost. Don't get sucked in by 'medical insurance for everybody'. That's a smokescreen to keep the insurance companies siphoning off money.

i'll vote for whoever is going to bring us single payer healthcare.

Smartest Damned thing we could do in this stupid country.

allow negotiations between the government and the the drug companies (this is why drugs are so much cheaper in Canada and Mexico) negotiations between the government and medical equipment suppliers, and will end cost shifting.

It will also eliminate multi layers of red tape, multi layers of bureaucracy, and mean almost all the money spent on health care actually goes to providing health care instead of to private insurance companies for their advertising, stock holder profits, sky scrappers, and paper shuffling.

This is one of my big issues.

This is LONG overdue.

K&R

It's about time that the US gets universal health care.

it will not in mine.

and K&R.

Thank you, John Conyers, for introducing this critical piece of legislation.

And thanks to you, cal04, for posting and reminding us that we need to support this.