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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11/04/09
READ THE FINE PRINT IN THE HEALTH CARE REFORM PLAN

Read the fine print and support the Kucinich Amendment (HR 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 ...

11/03/09
The Minnesota Problem: Remember Medicare for All in the healthcare ...

Last July Congressman Anthony Weiner and six of his colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee attempted to substitute the real public option—HR 676, a single payer plan—for the healthcare reform in the House. ...

11/03/09
Remember Medicare for All in the healthcare reform debate ...

Last July Congressman Anthony Weiner and six of his colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee attempted to substitute the real public option—HR 676, a single payer plan—for the healthcare reform in the House. ...

11/03/09
Remember Medicare for All in the healthcare reform debate

Last July Congressman Anthony Weiner and six of his colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee attempted to substitute the real public option—HR 676, a single payer plan—for the healthcare reform in the House. ...

11/03/09
Remember Medicare for All in the healthcare reform debate - The ...

Last July Congressman Anthony Weiner and six of his colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee attempted to substitute the real public option—HR 676, a single payer plan—for the healthcare reform in the House.

11/03/09
Conservatives urge 'House call' on Thursday (encouraging ...

HR 676 never even got as far as the CBO in 6 years. No Elephants, Nov-03-09 09:29 AM, #4. HEY HAlloween is OVER! NO MORE NUTS coming to the HOUSE!!! benld74, Nov-02-09 12:05 PM, #2. "Commonsense Republican alternatives"? beltanefauve ...

11/03/09
FDL Action » Altmire's Faulty Math

Wherever black America goes, Obama will have to follow. In the the swingers (OH, FL, etc), where black turnout was significantly higher for Obama than it was for Kerry, the jump was around 10%. Medicare For All / HR 676: the healthcare ...

Source: Firedoglake
11/03/09
Capitalism and Health Care - Care2 News Network

We got the packets with the signatures for HR 676, Single Payer, off today. As soon as I get a breather I'll share the cover letter with you guys. A gal that works at a government facility that I spoke with today said that the Public ...

11/03/09
Final House Health Care Bill Unveiled

This bill (in whatever form other than HR 676) is not going to do me any good. I have employee benefits which require me to pay up to 5K per year for Medical and 770 a year for prescriptions and lets not talk about vision and dental ...

11/03/09
Afternoon Open Thread - Jack & Jill Politics

Congress and the White House are continually bombarded with letters, phone calls, faxes and emails demanding the consideration of Medicare For All, HR 676, simple and effective single payer legislation introduced by Congressmen Conyers ...

11/03/09
Let the for-profit, free-market model work for industry (but not ...

One such proposal, HR 676, in congress,Improved Medicare for All, includes added benefits such as dental, drugs, and long term care, no deductibles and no increased taxes to the middle class. There are no insurers between you and the ...

11/03/09
"Michael Moore's Action Plan: 15 Things Every American Can Do ...

Anthony Weiner that will bring us closer to the real bill that should be passed: HR 676. You must call AND write your members of Congress and demand that they support this amendment, no compromises allowed. ...

11/02/09
Open Left:: House Rules Committee Still Hasn't Scheduled Health ...

Representative Weiner (D-NY) is looking to get a vote on an amendment to replace the entire health care reform package with H.R. 676, Medicare for All (aka, single-payer). This was an amendment promised to Representative Weiner in ...

11/02/09
Action Alert: Call for the Weiner Single Payer Amendment Today ...

The Weiner Amendment would substitute the single payer language of HR 676 for the language of the proposed House Bill (H.R. 3962). This would be the first and only time that the full House would have an opportunity to debate and vote on ...

11/02/09
Pelosi To Send House Bill To Floor Today | TPMDC

I guess your feelings on this as a liberal are going to depend on whether you think this bill can lead, incrementally, to a single payer system such as that outlined in HR 676 or not. I sort of think that even if a very small number of ...

11/02/09
HR676: Serious policy? or Simple political posturing?

...insist that there is a simple golden-bullet solution to the health care crisis. All we need to do is substitute the 30 page HR676 Single Payer/Medicare For All bill for the 1990 page HR3962. Which led me to ask "How can you possibly supply code language

Source: Angry Bear
11/02/09
The Devil in the Details, Part II : CJR

So far I can only estimate costs for single payer which HR 676 describes as an increased rate in Medicare's payroll deduction to around 4 to 5%. That math I can calculate and compare. But nothing else has my personal dollars attached to ...

Source: CJR
11/02/09
Health Care Reform: Speak Up Today!

Today is the last day to demand that the Kucinich Amendment to protect state single payer initiatives be put back in the Health Care bill (HR 676). Ask your Representatives to put the Kucinich Amendment back in the bill. ...

11/02/09
Olympia Single Payer: Call your rep TODAY in solidarity | OlyBlog

Weiner that there will be a full floor vote on his single payer amendment, which substitutes the text of the current bill, HR 3962, with the provisions of HR 676, the single-payer bill sponsored by Rep. Conyers – and then vote Yes when ...

11/02/09
San Francisco FYI net: Obama sign is down!

Single Payer Now wants to remind Speaker Nancy Pelosi to keep her promises to allow States to have their own State Single Payer Plans and to allow a vote on HR 676 on the floor of congress (Weiner Amendment). ...

11/02/09
Mobilize for Health Care

distributed by: Dear Friend, Today the Mobilization continued to spread across America and our movement showed again that we will not rest until health care is a right for all. In Louisville, seven of the many supporters who occupied ...

Source: Pass HR 676
11/02/09
tempus fugit.

Weiner (D-NY) wants to offer an amendment to the current House health care reform bill that would essentially replace it with HR 676, the single-payer bill. Of course, House leaders decide which amendments get votes and which don't, ...

11/02/09
Failure by Design - The "Public" Option | The Agonist

for a summary of hr 676, the main single payer bill embodying these principles, see john conyer's faq: http://www.johnconyers.com/hr676faq. single payer, unlike the public option which is a creation of democratic party operatives, ...

11/01/09
Our legislators must stop politicking with the lives of our ...

On July 31, 2009, Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) introduced an amendment in the House Energy & Commerce Committee to replace key provisions in the House health reform bill with language modeled after HR 676, the Expanded and ...

11/01/09
Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! Go!: About Mandates

HR 676 expands the Medicare program to provide all individuals residing in the United States and U.S. territories with free health care that includes all medically necessary care, such as primary care and prevention, prescription drugs, ...

11/01/09
Urgent - Save Kucinich Amendment and let Congress vote on HR 676

Call Nancy Pelosi! Ask ask her to keep her promise to allow a vote on single-payer in the House, and to keep the Kucinich Amendment. Dear Healthcare-NOW! Supporter: We've just learned that the two single-payer amendments to the House ...

11/01/09
Jacob M. Appel: Health "Insurance": A Criminal Enterprise

Pass HR 676 and SB 703 or at least allow the Kucinich Amendment to allow the states to enact their own single payer laws for universal coverage or Weiner's amendment to substitute the language of HR 676 for the present bill HR 3200 or ...

11/01/09
Pelosi Must Let States Create Single Payer Plans - Care2 News Network

HR 676 is what 90 % of American's, which the Dare To Dream Network got signatures from, want..Some spoke about the public option as long as it's as good as what the legislators already have. But most agree that Single Payer is the ...

11/01/09
Michael Moore's Action Plan: 15 Things Every American Can Do Right ...

John Conyers Jr.'s H.R. 676. In July, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised Rep. Weiner an up or down vote on his amendment before the end of the year. At that moment this became our best chance for a single-payer, universal health care ...

11/01/09
Medical Students Urge Speaker Pelosi To Keep Her Promise | Working ...

HR 676. He withdrew this amendment from committee proceedings in July in response to a promise by Congressional leaders, including the Speaker, that legislators would be given an opportunity to vote on the amendment in a full session of ...

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