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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10/29/09
The House Health Care Bill: Read It

DEMAND REAL REFORM: SINGLE PAYER HR 676! Forget raising $1 trillion of public money for the healthcos. Cover everyone, save that $1 trillion and avoid the inevitable skyrocketing costs for private inurance. CALL, WRITE CONGRESS TODAY! ...

10/29/09
House Bill released: Open Thread | Crooks and Liars

Weiner to bring his amendment (H.R. 676 "Medicare for All") to H.R. 3200 to the House for a full debate/vote. But he's so busy cheerleading for the Obama/Pelosi bill that I cannot IMAGINE either him or Conyers or even Kucinich leading ...

10/29/09
Another myth: Health reform will improve U.S. competitiveness ...

How will HR 676 and ONLY HR 676 reduce costs by $400 billion annually? • Eliminates industry high dollar bureaucracy • Eliminates obscene profits • Eliminates high corporate salaries • Eliminates advertising ...

10/28/09
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: H.R. 676. You must call AND write your members of Congress and demand that they support this amendment, no compromises allowed. ...

10/28/09
If It Were Up to Me « Single Payer Action

The 88 members of Congress who have co-sponsored HR 676 – the single payer bill in the House. If only half of them stood with us in opposition to Obamacare — it would go down in flames – as it deservedly must. ...

10/28/09
20 Powerful Health Care Reform Ads Made By Regular People (VIDEO)

Weiner's HR 676 single payer, Medicare for All amendment • Retain Rep. Kucinich's state single-payer amendment 2. ASK your Senators to • Vote yes on S. 703, the American Health Security Act 3. JOIN the Actions across the US: ...

10/27/09
Progressive Democrats of America Blog » Crunch Time and a ...

Vote as a block for the Weiner amendment to HR 3200 which substitutes HR 676, the United States National Health Care Act. Then return to your districts and report to your constituents that HR 676 offers true progressive reform including ...

10/27/09
Michael Moore's Action Plan: 15 Things Every American Can Do Right ...

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

10/27/09
Tuesday Talk: Should Minnesotans have access to the Public Option ...

We all know that the only real, viable solution to our healthcare crisis is to allow president Obama to sign H.R. 676 into law. That would provide for a Medicare style health plan to be available to every American man, woman and child; ...

10/27/09
Okay, Senate Is Including A Public Option; Now What? | Crooks and ...

HR 676, single payer is the only way. Get the Wall Street Mafia out of health care. Login or register to reply. Reid . . Tue, 10/27/2009 - 10:10 — Evet. "We have 60 people in the caucus," he said. "We all hug together and see where we ...

10/27/09
Pelosi thinks she represents America « The Obambi.com Blog www ...

The 88 members of Congress who have co-sponsored HR 676 – the single payer bill in the House. If only half of them stood with us in opposition to Obamacare — it would go down in flames — as it deservedly must. ...

10/27/09
Letter Received From Congressman John Oliver

H.R. 676, the United States National Healthcare Act, would provide a single-payer healthcare system under which would provide each U.S. citizen with free comprehensive healthcare services. Based off of the Medicare model, the National ...

10/27/09
Health Care for All

While we know that Anthony Weiner's single payer bill (HR 676) will not pass this time around, we call on all members of Congress to support this approach since it is the only true solution to the health care crisis. ...

10/26/09
The P/Oed Patriot: Universal Government Health Care Amendment ...

Weiner introduced another amendment which was the exact language of HR 676, Improved and Expanded Medicare for All. If this amendment passed, there would be no more HR 3200, just universal, comprehensive, single-payer health care as the ...

10/26/09
Declaring War And Then Not Showing Up For Battle Is A Losing ...

In the near future all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives will have to vote on Single Payer HR 676 as an amendment to HR 3200. It will be a moment of truth for them and the organizations listed below. ...

10/26/09
FDL Action » The When, How, Who, and What of the Public Option Opt-Out

We don't have to start from nothing and we don't have to hold more sham hearings: HR 676 / Medicare For All is a real bill already in the House that builds on an existing program. Call Congress and tell them to support HR 676 / Medicare ...

Source: FDL Action
10/26/09
Obama Mobilizes on Health Care: Keep on Working - Political Punch

You can throw in Jacob "The Architect" Hacker and the 90 cosponsors of H.R. 676. Yes indeed, the deceit goes on. There is no dispute here, the end game is single payer which polls below 20%, yet they have the audacity (yes, audacity) to ...

10/26/09
why not single payer? tuff call

If the Weiner single-payer amendment is passed, it would gut all of HR 3200 and replace it with legislation that is based on the single-payer model in HR 676. Senator Sanders is doing the same in the Senate with his single-payer bill, ...

Source: technoninja
10/26/09
t r u t h o u t | Health Care for All

While we know that Anthony Weiner's single payer bill (HR 676) will not pass this time around, we call on all members of Congress to support this approach since it is the only true solution to the health care crisis. ...

10/26/09
Senate aides say Reid doesn't have the votes for opt-out public ...

If the New York Times had been a responsible newspaper, they'd have been reporting on the Single Payer option (H.R.676) instead of scuttling articles about it. Perhaps then the U.S. would be on the right track to the only fix that will ...

Source: Raw Story
10/26/09
FDL Action » Reid's Opt-Out: The Devil is In the Details

Instead, you would be fighting for HR 676 / Medicare For All Americans. Reply. Mary October 26th, 2009 at 3:26 pm. 3. So is there any calculation that the opt out issue is a feature, not a bug? That the Dems see political capital in the ...

Source: FDL Action
10/26/09
Truth Emerges about the Public Option : CJR

Which is exactly why we need HR 676. Everything else is a case of too little, too late. Posted by Michael on Mon 26 Oct 2009 at 02:27 PM. "But we suggest that time and space might be better used discussing the individual mandate, ...

Source: CJR
10/25/09
Washblog || Public Option = Holy Roman Empire

The cheapest and most efficient solution of all is still single payer Improved Medicare for All. If you are going to force everyone to pay into a health care system, why not the HR 676 system for $125/month instead of insurance ...

10/25/09
Michael Moore's Contract with America - It's Happening Forums

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

10/25/09
Poll Shows Public Wants Medicare for All « Indus Asia Online ...

John Conyers' HR 676, the Enhanced Medicare For All single payer bill – but the measure is anathema to President Obama, who spent most of his energies marginalizing Conyers and his allies in the early months of the administration. ...

10/25/09
Be a patriot, support H.R. 676 :-)

Be a sport, make America competitive emot-patriot.gif : The bill was first introduced in 2003,[3] when it had 25 cosponsors, and has been reintroduced.

10/25/09
Public Option vs. Single Payer – Part I

Single payer legislation, HR 676 has been proposed but is being ignored by most policymakers. Why? We hear these terms, public option, single payer, and universal health care tossed about a great deal but what exactly do they mean and ...

10/25/09
Russ Feingold: What Liberals Want is a Single-Payer System | Video ...

Let's see the Congressional Budget Office's scoring of H.R. 676 - Single Payer. Let's have the debate on the House floor. Who knows??? If the media is even slightly fair and the public gets wind of how great Single Payer would be, ...

10/25/09
Anthony Weiner Points Out the Hypocrisy of Members of Congress on ...

(By the way — that's 88, down from 89 — because Congressman Kendrick Meek (D-Florida) wants to be the next Senator from Florida, and has withdrawn his support for HR 676 – the single payer bill in the House.) ...

10/24/09
President Obama: It's Time To Fight | Working for Our Common Good

... and save the majority of Americans money. Be sure you also tell them you want HR-676 scored by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) since the bill will now get a vote. Click here to send your message - Vote YES on HR-676! ...

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