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

To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes. view all titles (3)

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  • Short: United States National Health Care 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, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes. as introduced.
  • Popular: United States National Health Care Act or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act as introduced.

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11/05/09
Why Unemployment Is More Important Than Health-Care Reform ...

Obama has been at arm's length from the so-called Healthcare Debate. This is why the best we have is watered down craptastic crippled compromises to consider. What we need is HR 676. This should have been put to bed months ago. ...

11/05/09
Late-breaking GOOD NEWS from Healthcare-NOW

Corinne Brown represents part of Gainesville and she is signed on to HR 676, so she should be encouraged to vote for the Weiner Amendment. ***Her number in DC is: 202-225-0123 ***Her number in Jacksonville is: 904- 354-1652 ...

11/05/09
Kucinich Raises Questions about Stand Alone Vote on National ...

Following a statement on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), co-author of HR 676 with Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), today made the following statement about the House health care plan: ...

11/05/09
Baltimore Activist Alert

7] – Support National, Single-Payer Healthcare (HR 676) Bulletin indicates for the first time ever, single-payer legislation will be debated and voted on by Congress. This week, the House of Representatives will vote on Rep. ...

11/05/09
The House will vote on HR 676! We made history! Let's make some ...

We will finally get a fair debate in Congress on HR 676 and the merits of creating such a health program – a system that would cut healthcare costs, build on the strengths of Medicare and improve it, while expanding coverage to everyone ...

11/05/09
Pelosi: Single-Payer Amendment Breaks Obama's Health Care Promise ...

I disagree, we do not know how Weiner changed HR 676 ... slipslidingaway, Nov-06-09 12:43 AM, #53. To whom is the promise broken? Deja Q, Nov-05-09 06:36 PM, #8. Deleted message, Name removed, Nov-06-09 02:08 AM, #63 ...

11/05/09
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | National Week of Action: Call Congress for ...

And it will steer everyone involved in this farce into a tank infested with blood sucking insurance corporate sharks. Follow through on the promise, support Conyers and Kucinich. DEMAND SINGLE PAYER and the PASSAGE of HR-676. ...

11/05/09
John Geyman: No Health Care Bill is Better Than a Bad Bill

The best first option would be to call for a floor vote, as originally promised by the House Speaker Pelosi, for the amendment proposed by Anthony Weiner (D-NY) to substitute HR 676, a single-payer proposal, for HR 3962. ...

11/05/09
CUUSP pushes for DC City Council Resolution on Single Payer ...

In an effort to raise local awareness about single-payer and to send a clear message to Congress and the rest of the country, CUUSP has recently launched a campaign to get the DC City Council to pass a resolution in support of H.R. 676, ...

11/05/09
Kucinich Calls For No Vote on HR 676, Medicare For All

In a stunning about-face, Dennis Kucinich made a statement questioning a scheduled stand-alone vote on HR 676, Medicare For All. It was to be voted on Friday. Then he sent an email to supporters urging them to convince congressional ...

11/05/09
The House will vote on HR 676! We made history! « Placentia Yorba ...

We will finally get a fair debate in Congress on HR 676 and the merits of creating such a health program – a system that would cut healthcare costs, build on the strengths of Medicare and improve it, while expanding coverage to everyone ...

11/05/09
Kucinich Calls For No Vote on HR 676 | Health Care | Change.org

In a stunning about-face, Dennis Kucinich made a statement questioning a scheduled stand-alone vote on HR 676, Medicare For All. It was to be voted on Friday. Then he sent an email to supporters u... read more of this post, ...

11/05/09
greensboropeerpressure: **This Just In - Healthcare News**

87 co-sponsors of HR 676, but this vote will make it clear which elected officials are truly with single-payer, Medicare for All. The Congressional Switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Tell your representative what you want in ...

11/05/09
Obama welcomed by SF protestors | The Guardsman

Tarran advocated H.R. 676, a House of Representatives single-payer bill. Very different ideas could be heard just a few feet from Tarran's banner, which read, “Doctors Want Single Payer Health Care.” “Obama's health care plan would put ...

11/05/09
Today is the DAY! Contact your Representatives Regarding the ...

Anthony Weiner's amendment which would replace the House health reform bill with the Single-Payer/Medicare for All bill (HR 676). Let's make our demand loud and clear by calling Congress now! We want our Reps. to support Weiner's HR 676 ...

11/05/09
Oh Bummer: Deceit has its price

... Democratic leaders in Congress have stripped out of the president's bills any chance for states to pursue their own single payer regimes, and backtracked on promises to allow a floor vote on the Medicare For All measure, HR 676. ...

Source: Oh Bummer
11/05/09
Let's make them pass the Weiner amendment | Corrente

... and John Conyers's HR 676. According to David Swanson, the debate on the Weiner amendment is being used as cover for dropping Kucinich's amendment, which would allow states to create their own single-payer health insurance systems. ...

Source: Corrente
11/05/09
The House will vote on HR 676! We made history!

... over the past week – culminating in the civil disobedience at Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office on Tuesday – appear to have been the tipping point in the fight to get a fair debate in Congress on CSEA-endorsed HR 676, a bill to [...]

11/05/09
Kucinich Tries to Kill Vote on Medicare For All | Health Care ...

In a stunning about-face, Dennis Kucinich made a statement questioning a scheduled stand-alone vote on HR 676, Medicare For All. It was to be voted on Friday. Then he sent an email to supporters u... read more of this post, ...

11/04/09
Derrick's Progressive News 11-05-09: Will Congress Debate Single ...

(The Weiner amendment would replace Division A of HR 3200 with the text of HR 676, the “U.S. National Health Care Act,” sponsored by Rep. John Conyers. This would effectively transform HR 3200 into single-payer legislation.) ...

11/04/09
Best Health Care in the World? - Nicholas D. Kristof Blog ...

... purpose of a newspaper to point out when the corporations and government are hiding other options. it would have been nice to see a CBO analysis of bill hr 676 and for this to be compared with the other plans that will cost more, ...

11/04/09
Grant Lawrence--Bodhi Thunder: Read the Fine Print in the Health ...

Read the fine print and support the Kucinich Amendment (H.R. 676) which must be put back in the health care bill, not just to protect the rights of states to pursue single payer, but to protect the rights of consumers to be free of the ...

11/04/09
Nothing to fear but health care reform itself - Orange Punch ...

Why not H.R.676 Medicare for All? It is only 40 pages. Seems like 1900 pages, to protect health insurance profits, at the expense of chipping away at our personal liberties, is just too much. Post Reply. ocobserver says: ...

11/04/09
Speaker Pelosi Relents: There will be a vote on the Weiner Single ...

This amendment will substitute most of the language of HR 676 for the current bill and establish a Medicare for All system of healthcare. Please all Cong. Altmire and let him know that you stand with PA AFL-CIO President Bill George ...

11/04/09
Midweek Diary Rescue

HR676: Serious Policy Proposal? or Posturing for Effect? (Bruce Webb). Youth vote still up for grabs, argues John Russonello in Young People are Asking - Where's the Party for Us? There is no place quite like Miami-Dade writes Inoljt in ...

Source: MyDD
11/04/09
Firedoglake » Early Morning Swim: Election Roundup

12 people just got arrest at pelosi's office for trying to talk with her — and she claims to be for hr 676, but won't even include the kucinich amendment to permit states to experiment with single payer. and kucinich's amendment was ...

Source: Firedoglake
11/04/09
FUCK EM AND FEED EM FISH-HEADS « BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt

I don´t know what liberal Democrats even believe in anymore, but it sure wasn´t Conyers and Kucinich´s HR 676 which was tied with Paul/Kucinich´s HR 1207 for being as close to perfect as any American piece of legislatiion in the past 30 ...

11/04/09
Dissident Voice : Shut Down This Murderous Racket: Change We Need ...

This amendment would have replaced the current bill with HR 676: the single-payer bill. The other, more meaningful bone was the “Kucinich Amendment,” which would have lifted loopholes that prevent individual states from enacting ...

11/04/09
FDL Action » No Health Care Bill Til Next Year? Fine By Me

Even HR 676 is incomplete. There has to be “public option” for “biologics”. An alternative non-privatized maniufacturer of new medications. The Pharmaceuticals have a monopoly on research, production and prices of meds. ...

Source: FDL Action
11/04/09
Pelosi to graciously grant single payer (HR676) twenty (20 ...

Even if (as is likely) a single payer plan is a fiscally unbalanced, once the CBO lays out its analysis, the PNHP eggheads can study its financial assumptions and plug the revenue holes for a revised HR 676. And then when the inevitable ...

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