HR 676: Universal Single Payer Health Care. Status? Anyone?

[thoughtanarchist]

From the best I can determine, http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.00676:">HR 676 has been in committee since february. Does anyone have any information on what is holding up this bill?

[gateley]

1. K&R - I'd like to know, too. Thanks. nt

[Nutmegger]

2. Excellent question.

R&K

[hobbit709]

3. Lobby money-what else would hold it up?

You think the HMOs are going to give up their profits.

[redqueen]

4. Argh...

I wish congresscritters weren't so easily bought off. Dammit!

[Coexist]

5. ... and now I'm stuck in committee, where i'll sit here and wait...

While a few key Congressmen discuss
and debate
Whether they should let me be a law.
How I hope and pray that they will,
But today I am still just a bill.



http://www.school-house-rock.com/Bill.html

[antigop]

6. Sadly, there is no Senate companion bill -- so I don't think it will go anywhere. n/t

[thoughtanarchist]

7. Is it unprecedented?

that a bill go to the house floor without a competing senate version already introduced?

[antigop]

8. I don't know the answer to your question...but I think it will be hard to move a bill that does not

have Senate support.

jmo.

(I'm not trying to discourage people from pushing HR 676. If you read my past posts, I am a strong supporter of this bill. I'm just trying to present the reality of the situation.)

<edit to add> on another thread, I suggested that perhaps Bernie Sanders might be a good candidate for sponsoring a Senate bill. He co-sponsored HR 676 during the previous session when he was in the House of Representatives.