H.R.676 - United States National Health Insurance Act (or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act)

To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, and for other purposes. view all titles (2)

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  • Short: United States National Health Insurance Act (or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act) as introduced.
  • Official: To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, and for other purposes. as introduced.

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01/07/09
malicia68: Health Care for all - WRITE A LETTER TO CONGRESS

Write a letter -- not an email -- in your own words to your member of Congress stating that you'd like their commitment to vote for H.R. 676. If your member of Congress is a co-sponsor of the bill, express your support for that stand. ...

01/06/09
over the cliff, onto the rocks.: I don't get out much...

visited 4 states (1.77%) Create your own visited map of The World or try another Douwe Osinga project · via · fridge poetry! Posted by hipparchia at 1/06/2009 06:56:00 PM. Labels: blogulation ...

01/06/09
AFT and NEA Local Unions Endorse HR 676 : Healthcare-NOW!

Organizing for a National, Single-Payer Healthcare System.

01/06/09
Common Sense: Crooks with ties

Thirty-nine state AFL-CIO federations, over 100 Central Labor Councils and 400 local unions have endorsed HR-676, John Conyer’s "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All" bill. [www.johnconyers.com/healthcare] The first step is to unite ...

01/06/09
The Rag Blog: Dr. Stephen R. Keister : Dante's Hypocrites and ...

We who have been speaking for single payer, universal health care have been encouraged by what appears to be wide spread popular support for such a program as per HR 676 introduced by Rep. John Conyers and backed by some 90 sponsors, ...

01/05/09
SIRATYST: Gaza Hospital Fills Up, Mainly With Civilians -- Even ...

... PALESTINIAN CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL · PALESTINIAN PUNDIT · REPEAL THE HYDE AMDMT -- 30 YEARS IS ENOUGH! STAND UP SEATTLE · SUPPORT SINGE-PAYER HEALTHCARE BILL - HR 676 · TALES TO TELL FROM GA

Source: SIRATYST
01/05/09
Health “Insurance Jive”: Do you speak insurance? | Health Plus ...

... as thousands of people pour into the streets of San Francisco outside the insurance convention, and in 19 other cities across the country, to protest the insurers and to advocate for guaranteed healthcare, such as HR 676 and SB 840, ...

01/05/09
over the cliff, onto the rocks.

Open Congress. Everybody and their cousin is blogging about HR 676 · thanks to the Sunlight Foundation · 2009 War Tax Boycott. Cost of the War in Iraq. (JavaScript Error). To see more details, click here. ...

01/05/09
Senior Citizens Consortium Blog » A discussion of Universal Health ...

Our health care system is broken, and HR 676, the Conyers-Kucinich bill, is the only comprehensive solution to the problem. It is also the system endorsed by more than 14000 physicians from Physicians for a National Health Program. ...

01/04/09
The Zak Meents Blog: Let's Impeach the President for Lyin'

Sign the Petition for Single-Payer Heathcare. Online petition - Petition Congress to pass Single-Payer HR 676 – National Health Insurance. Meet The Bloggers. Watch Meet the Bloggers. Amnesty International. Support Amnesty International ...

01/04/09
Most people still don't know about HR 676 | Corrente

Our opposition's main tactic is to bury the single payer movement and make sure no one hears about HR 676, or if they do, are persuaded it is a lost cause. That is why the work of groups such as Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan is ...

Source: Corrente
01/04/09
Morning Seditionists » Booblehead Thread

... Progressive Democrats of LA · Progressive Democrats of NY · Project Vote Smart · Single-Payer Heathcare (HR 676) · Wasilla Project · Working Families Party (CT) · Working Families Party (NY) · Working Fa

01/04/09
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Public Safety Net—Not Charity—Should Guarantee ...

HR 676 has been endorsed by 478 union organizations in 49 states including 118 Central Labor Councils and Area Labor Federations and 39 state AFL-CIO’s (KY, PA, CT, OH, DE, ND, WA, SC, WY, VT, FL, WI, WV, SD, NC, MO, MN, ME, AR, MD-DC, ...

01/04/09
Listen Up! Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid on MediCare ...

A single-payer, Medicare for All system is embodied in H.R. 676, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers and 92 other members of Congress. It would have automatic enrollment for everyone and provide comprehensive services covering all medically ...

01/04/09
SIRATYST: Jabalia [Refugee Camp] 6pm Sat til Sun Midday--ISMer As ...

... PALESTINIAN CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL · PALESTINIAN PUNDIT · REPEAL THE HYDE AMDMT -- 30 YEARS IS ENOUGH! STAND UP SEATTLE · SUPPORT SINGE-PAYER HEALTHCARE BILL - HR 676 · TALES TO TELL FROM GA

Source: SIRATYST
01/03/09
thoughts from podunk: Why Barack Obama's "stimulus" package won't work

A Letter to Ted Kennedy: Do the right thing----Support HR 676 · United Mine Workers union President Cecil Roberts on single-payer universal health care... Union Video Presentation: US vs. Canada Healthcare. Single-payer universal health ...

01/03/09
SIRATYST: Gaza Communications Cut Off by Israeli Invasion

... PALESTINIAN CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL · PALESTINIAN PUNDIT · REPEAL THE HYDE AMDMT -- 30 YEARS IS ENOUGH! STAND UP SEATTLE · SUPPORT SINGE-PAYER HEALTHCARE BILL - HR 676 · TALES TO TELL FROM GA

Source: SIRATYST
01/03/09
SIRATYST: Gaza Protest in Seattle -- Crowed Est. Varied 700 - 2000!

... PALESTINIAN CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL · PALESTINIAN PUNDIT · REPEAL THE HYDE AMDMT -- 30 YEARS IS ENOUGH! STAND UP SEATTLE · SUPPORT SINGE-PAYER HEALTHCARE BILL - HR 676 · TALES TO TELL FROM GA

Source: SIRATYST
01/03/09
Le Pistoir: Using anecdotal evidence, NPR passes judgement on NHI

Based on confounding logic like Baucus', NPR says that passing HR 676 (Expanded Medicare for All) is impossible. The other reason given is more revealing though: "Pete Stark (D-CA) says the public is not ready...eliminating the health ...

Source: Le Pistoir
01/03/09
Point of view: Medicare works and should be made available to us ...

There is a bill (HR 676 in the last Congress with 90 members of Congress as cosponsors) that will be offered to do exactly that -- Medicare for everyone -- and more. The total cost will be less than what is being paid out now. ...

01/03/09
SIRATYST: IDF Admits to Overestimating Gaza Rocket Severity

... PALESTINIAN CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL · PALESTINIAN PUNDIT · REPEAL THE HYDE AMDMT -- 30 YEARS IS ENOUGH! STAND UP SEATTLE · SUPPORT SINGE-PAYER HEALTHCARE BILL - HR 676 · TALES TO TELL FROM GA

Source: SIRATYST
01/03/09
Delaware Watch: "I'm Dying"

... Herman Holloway Sr. (1); heroism (1); Hillary Clinton (18); Hinduism (1); Hitler (1); Holocaust (1); homelessness (7); homophobia (4); Homosexual rights (5); Hope Commission (1); House Republicans (1); HR 676 (2); Hugo Chavez (5) ...

01/03/09
Morning Seditionists » Saturday

... Progressive Democrats of LA · Progressive Democrats of NY · Project Vote Smart · Single-Payer Heathcare (HR 676) · Wasilla Project · Working Families Party (CT) · Working Families Party (NY) · Working Fa

01/02/09
Morning Seditionists » Friday Open Thread

... Progressive Democrats of LA · Progressive Democrats of NY · Project Vote Smart · Single-Payer Heathcare (HR 676) · Wasilla Project · Working Families Party (CT) · Working Families Party (NY) · Working Fa

01/02/09
Where Is My National Health Insurance Card? | Health Plus Health Care

I am all for HR 676–single-payer health care for all. But I believe that in order for HR 676 to be enacted into law there has to be an Amendment Propsal to the Constitution that would state that health care is a civil and human right to ...

01/02/09
Sinister: Happy Friday from Portland

Health Care; Physicians for a National Health Program · Text of HR 676, the National Health Insurance Bill. Labor; Change to Win Labor Coalition · Unions for Jobs and the Environment. Community Activism; ACORN · Food Not Bombs ...

Source: Sinister
01/02/09
Delaware Watch: Public Announcement: Public Invited to Meeting ...

... Herman Holloway Sr. (1); heroism (1); Hillary Clinton (18); Hinduism (1); Hitler (1); Holocaust (1); homelessness (7); homophobia (4); Homosexual rights (5); Hope Commission (1); House Republicans (1); HR 676 (2); Hugo Chavez (5) ...

01/02/09
Sinister: Welcome to Sinister PDX

Health Care; Physicians for a National Health Program · Text of HR 676, the National Health Insurance Bill. Labor; Change to Win Labor Coalition · Unions for Jobs and the Environment. Community Activism; ACORN · Food Not Bombs ...

Source: Sinister
01/02/09
over the cliff, onto the rocks.

Open Congress. Everybody and their cousin is blogging about HR 676 · thanks to the Sunlight Foundation · 2009 War Tax Boycott. Cost of the War in Iraq. (JavaScript Error). To see more details, click here. ...

01/01/09
IT’S TIME FOR AMERICAN LABOR TO FIGHT FOR SOCIALIZED MEDICINE ...

Only single payer engenders such a movement, the very reason the single payer bill now in Congress, HR 676, has more co-sponsors than any other reform bill with tens of thousands around the country already working to enact it. ...

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