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Just found out--I should've known--we have a federal single-payer healthcare bill, HR 676, introduced by Democratic Representative John Conyers of Michigan. It's effectively an extension of Medicare to all Americans. If you're American, and if, like me, you've had it with for-profit healthcare, which costs so much and deprives so many, then please contact your Congressional Representative and urge him or her to co-sponsor HR 676.
No, of course the bill's not going to "go anywhere," least of all in the current Republican legislature. It's going to be killed by the health-insurance lobby, much as you'd swat a fly. The point in supporting the federal single-payer measure is to stoke that inexorable grassroots support that alone will bring down the Goliath of for-profit healthcare in the end. |