Please Sign This Single Payer Petition

[balantz]

Please sign the petition supporting the single-payer bill and distribute it widely!

http://www.democrats.com/single-payer-petition


(text of petition):


Dear Representative,

I urge you to co-sponsor H.R. 676, the "Medicare For All" Bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers.

Our health care system is broken. We have nearly 50 million citizens with no health coverage, and at least 18,000 of them die unnecessarily each year as a result. Millions more have inadequate insurance coverage.

Every other industrialized country in the world makes sure its population has access to basic healthcare. The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee access to health care as a human right.

28 industrialized nations have single payer universal health care systems like the type proposed in this bill - privately delivered health care, publicly financed - and none spend as much per capita on health care as the United States. The United States ranks near the bottom among industrial countries in indicators from life expectancy (20th) to infant mortality (23rd).

Under H.R. 676, a family of four making the median income of $56,200 would pay about $2,700 in payroll tax for all health care costs. No deductibles, no co-pays, no worrying about catastrophic coverage.

The services covered include primary care, inpatient, outpatient and emergency hospital care, prescription drugs, durable medical equipment, hearing, dental and vision care, chiropractic treatment, mental health services, and long-term care.

Physicians for a National Health Program estimates the nation could save over $286 billion dollars a year in total health care costs. That's enough to cover all the uninsured and provide full prescription drug coverage for everyone in the United States.

No other issue so directly impacts Americans. Please sign on to co-sponsor this vital bill. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. Done! Rec!

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[Lugnut]

2. Done! n/t

[pleah]

3. Already signed this one.

K&R :hi:

[balantz]

4. Kick

[mrsjefferson]

5. Done! K&R

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[barbtries]

6. did it

hope someone's listening....

[snake in the grass]

7. Done.

Dear Representative,

as this is a cookie-cutter mail, I would like to take the opportunity to ask you personally to support this bill. It is simply unconscionable that U.S. citizens cannot enjoy the benefits of single-payer health care, unlike citizens of all other industrialized nations. It is unconscionable that people must lose their homes because they are indebted to a private health care giver. It is unconscionable that Cuba has a lower level of infant mortality than the U.S. It is unconscionable that our system allows profit to be made at the cost of the sick. It is unconscionable that we are still debating this.

I call on you to stop the balderdash, take responsibility for the office you hold, and finally undertake measures to better this situation.

Sincerely,

Snake

(of course I didn't write 'Snake')

[upi402]

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[lostnotforgotten]

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10. Done!

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[balantz]

14. Kick

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[balantz]

16. Kick

[lazyriver]

17. Done. Every time I sign one of these, I make three phone calls:

Collins, Snowe, Michaud.

[a kennedy]

18. done.

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[byronius]

19. K&R.

[balantz]

20. Kick