Single payer vote tomorrow -- Thursday -- in House Committee, ACT NOW.
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Act Now -- Model Email Below
I just received this alert.
This Thursday, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) will introduce, in the
Energy and Commerce Committee, an amendment that abolishes private
insurance and creates a national single-payer system that would cover
everyone. This amendment would substitute Rep. John Conyers' (D-MI)
single-payer bill, HR 676, for the current Tri-Committee Health Reform
Bill.
If your representative is a member of the Energy & Commerce
Committee, please call and ask him or her to support Rep. Weiner's
single payer amendment.
Energy & Commerce Committee members can be found at:
http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=catego...
The Congressional Switchboard can be reached, toll free at 800-473-6711.
If your representative is not a member of the Committee, please call
Committee Chair Henry Waxman at 202-225-3976 and ask him to support
Weiner's single payer amendment.
HR 676 would institute a single payer health care system by
expanding a greatly improved Medicare system to everyone residing in
the U. S.
HR 676 would cover every person for all necessary medical care
including prescription drugs, hospital, surgical, outpatient services,
primary and preventive care, emergency services, dental, mental health,
home health, physical therapy, rehabilitation (including for substance
abuse), vision care, hearing services including hearing aids,
chiropractic, durable medical equipment, palliative care, and long term
care.
HR 676 ends deductibles and co-payments. HR 676 would save hundreds
of billions annually by eliminating the high overhead and profits of
the private health insurance industry and HMOs.
In the current Congress, HR 676 has 85 co-sponsors in addition to
Conyers. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced SB 703, a single
payer bill in the Senate.
The Democratic leadership bill, America's Affordable Health Choices
Act of 2009, fails to control costs, does not provide health care for
all, undermines the economy and makes job growth more difficult.
"Affordable" health insurance in the Democratic bill means if you
make $88,000 per year you will spend 19% of your income on health care
that you are required to buy -- or you get additional taxes added to
your tax bill. See http://www.prosperityagenda.us/node/866
And, it will choke the economy. Small businesses, $400,000 and up,
will face a penalty of 8% of their payroll if they do not provide
health insurance. How is that going to help avoid the jobless recovery
that seems to be occurring? In fact, this provision ensures a jobless
recovery.
Just as the PATRIOT Act was the opposite of its name, the Affordable
Health Choices Act is unaffordable. It wrecks havoc on the already weak
economy in order to provide the insurance industry, whose profits have
increased from $2.4 billion to $12.9 billion from 2000 to 2007, with
hundreds of billions (a low estimate) in new revenue . This bill is pay
to play corruption on display in Washington, DC.
Protecting big business health profiteers is so important to the
Democrat leadership that they ignore single payer which would create
2.6 million new jobs, and infuse $317 billion in new business and
public revenues, with another $100 billion in wages. Single payer would
actually expand the economy and produce jobs rather than undermine it.
See http://www.prosperityagenda.us/node/865
Urge every member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee to vote for the single payer amendment, HR 676.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WIDELY
Here is a model email to Members of Committee
Dear
Please support the single payer amendment, HR 676, being introduced by Rep. Weiner. The amendment would:
- Institute a single payer health care system by expanding a greatly
improved Medicare system to everyone residing in the U. S.
- Cover every person for all necessary medical care including
prescription drugs, hospital, surgical, outpatient services, primary
and preventive care, emergency services, dental, mental health, home
health, physical therapy, rehabilitation (including for substance
abuse), vision care, hearing services including hearing aids,
chiropractic, durable medical equipment, palliative care, and long term
care.
- End deductibles and co-payments.
- Save hundreds of billions annually by eliminating the high
overhead and profits of the private health insurance industry and HMOs.
The Affordable Health Choices Act is unacceptable it:
- Creates unaffordable insurance for tens of millions of Americans.
Americans who make $88,000 per year will spend 19% of their income on
health care they are required to buy -- under the penalty of increased
taxes. See http://www.prosperityagenda.us/node/866
- Undermines business and prevents job creation. Small businesses,
$400,000 and up, will face a penalty of 8% of their payroll if they do
not provide health insurance. How is that going to help avoid the
jobless recovery that seems to be occurring? In fact, this provision
ensures a jobless recovery.
- Gives hundreds of billions of dollars in more revenue to the
corrupt insurance industry by mandating that tens of millions of
Americans or their employers purchase expensive insurance. The profits
of the insurance industry increased from $2.4 billion to $12.9 billion
from 2000 to 2007 while America has faced a health care crisis. These
health care profiteers should not be protected.
Vote for HR 676.
Sincerely,
Submitters Website: http://www.ItsOurEconomy.us and http://www.ComeHomeAmerica.U
Submitters Bio:Kevin Zeese is co-chair of Come Home America, www.ComeHomeAmerica.US which seeks to end U.S. militarism and empire. He is also co-director of Its Our Economy, www.ItsOurEconomy.US which seeks to democratize the economy and give people greater control over their economic lives and more influence over the direction of the economy.