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
Letters to the editor

...be called "a friendly takeover of government, a leveraged buyout of democracy." We need U.S. representatives to support H.R. 676, not ...

09/17/09
Grijalva: Medical Security Is the ...

Although Congress does not appear to have the stomach to pass HR 676, there's every reason to believe that we can secure Medicare for All...

Source: Common Dreams (press release)
09/17/09
Medicare for all—

There is a bill, HR 676, which would do just that. What's more, since our dysfunctional for-profit system costs us about 2.5 times the av...

Source: Free Press Courier
09/17/09
Panelists at local Democrats' meet...

More than 400 local unions have issued support for HR 676, she said, and the 500-plus labor councils throughout the country are talking w...

Source: TheNewsTribune.com
09/16/09
RE: H.R.676

The United States National Health Care Act, or HR 676, is a bill introduced to the House of Representatives on Aug. 24 and is expected to...

Source: Valley Star
09/16/09
RE: H.R.676

The move against the Senate Finance Committee plan began just minutes after the AFL-CIO passed a resolution in support of HR 676, the Med...

Source: People's Weekly World
09/16/09
RE: H.R.676

The move against the Senate Finance Committee plan began just minutes after the AFL-CIO passed a resolution in support of HR 676, the Med...

Source: People's Weekly World
09/16/09
Americans Deserve the Option for B...

The United States National Health Care Act, or HR 676, is a bill introduced to the House of Representatives on Aug. 24 and is expected to...

Source: Valley Star
09/16/09
Healthcare, Afghanistan on Tap for...

Lighty will speak on the joint efforts of PDA and CNA to support and advance HR 676 (Conyers), the Medicare for All bill now in Congress....

Source: Common Dreams (press release)
09/16/09
RE: H.R.676

Time to pass HR 676 for single-payer UHC for all, and help middle class Americans to finally have affordable health care. by stn_sage Sep...

Source: CBS News

Blog Coverage

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11/25/09
APSCUF's endorsement of HR 676 (Me...

overwhelmingly to endorse HR 676. ASPCUF represents 6000 faculty members at the fourteen public university campuses across Pennsylvania. ...

11/25/09
Inland Z: Pennsylvania and Illinoi...

In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Legislative Assembly of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) ...

Source: Inland Z
11/25/09
SINGLE PAYER CENTRAL: Pennsylvania...

Pennsylvania and Illinois Faculty Unions Endorse HR 676. Two faculty unions affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA) have...

11/25/09
Real People DENIED Real Healthcare...

You're not going to get HR 676 passed until you get real progressives into congress, not just democrats. Some of them are wolves in sheep...

11/25/09
azcentral.com blogs - Mike McClell...

Sponsor: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] (introduced 2/8/2005) Cosponsors (78) Latest Major Action: 4/4/2005 Referred to House subcommitte...

11/25/09
Single Payer Action at the Nationa...

The house single payer bill – HR 676 – is only 30 pages long. Baucus, Obama and the Democrats had taken it off the table. And replaced it...

11/25/09
Single Payer Advocates Ask Congres...

introduced H.R. 676, legislation that would have created a single payer system by using existing government revenues to insure people and...

11/25/09
Linda Peeno MD, testifies | 63ok

I like the idea of HR 676 but there is a bad side to everything. What is the down side to this program? Such a huge change would cost a r...

Source: 63ok
11/25/09
GOBBLING UP OUR THANKSGIVING TURKEY

Single Payer Universal Health Care for everyone is supported by 57% in the same poll and the support of 88 Democrats in the House under S...

11/25/09
Pennsylvania and Illinois Faculty ...

Pennsylvania and Illinois Faculty Unions Endorse HR 676 Two faculty unions affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA) have ...

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