John Conyers:The HR 676 Coalition Keeps Growing.

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http://johnconyers.com/node/211

I recently sat down with members of the scientific community at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health to discuss collaborative efforts on the issue of universal health care. The school's dean, Dr. Michael Klag, was welcoming and supportive, as was everyone else I met with there. I look forward to learning from the research conducted at Bloomberg and to working with the scientists and professors there who share our commitment to all Americans have access to health care. For more on my visit,


http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/articles/2008/conyers_visit.html
In a frank and informal discussion on April 11, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. invited the scientific community at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to share its knowledge of health care systems around the world. The goal of the discussion, which was initiated by Conyers, was to get input from the School’s experts and to begin an ongoing collaboration that would help bring to fruition universal health care in the U.S.

Congressman Conyers (U.S. Rep., D–Mich.), who also serves as Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, champions a bill known as HR 676, which advocates a single-payer universal health care plan. The bill would provide coverage and care to every citizen, including the 47 million Americans currently excluded from any coverage.

The bill has already attracted 90 cosponsors, more than any universal health care proposal in Congress. The Chairman and his team hope to use evidence-based input from the Bloomberg School to strengthen the case for the 27-page bill as they continue to build support in Congress and the general public.

“We need Johns Hopkins so badly, because we don’t want to reinvent the wheel. It’s critical that we quickly pull together all the information and knowledge that we have so that we’re not losing time,” said Conyers. Cynthia Martin, Conyers’s chief of staff, added that, “We want to do this on a regular basis.”

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1. God - I hope Conyers is correct that is growing - HR 676 solves so many problems