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The Citizens Alliance for National Health Insurance
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THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF HR676.ORG, INC. IS TO FUND A NATIONAL MULTI-MEDIA ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE THE PASSAGE OF...

House Resolution (H.R.) 676
The United States National Health Insurance Act
(“Expanded & Improved Medicare for ALL”)

This bill will provide...
Affordable Single-Payer National Health Insurance for All!

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What Is National Health Insurance (NHI)?

To begin with, it is NOT “Socialized Medicine”, far from it in fact. Also, it does not mean that our medical system will be taken over by the government and run like the post office as many of our opposition friends would mistakenly have you believe.

Basically, House Resolution (H.R.) 676, the “New Expanded Medicare” bill now in sub-committee in the House of Representatives simply creates a new and far more functional “single payer” method of paying for medical services while leaving the medical system itself completely alone and intact. This will eliminate the hundreds of complicated and redundant payment plans currently imposed on the system by private “for profit” health insurance companies and save literally BILLIONS of dollars every year by eliminating such wasteful duplication. This will allow your doctors offices and hospitals to function much more efficiently and serve your needs much more effectively as well. Just imagine what a huge benefit this will be!

Taxes: We all know that nothing of any real value is ever free, but if you think of the taxes that will be required to support national health insurance as simply a lower cost alternative to the staggering private health insurance premiums that most of us already have to pay but which will be totally eliminated under the new system, then it becomes immediately clear that this could be a really good deal after all!

"Health care is a defining right in a democratic society."

Congressman Dennis Kucinich

Check out some of the tremendous benefits that NHI will bring and see what you think:

Every citizen of the US will be covered from birth to death.
No more pre-existing conditions to be excluded from coverage.
No more expensive deductibles or co-pays.
All prescription medications will be covered.
All dental and eye care will be included.
Mental health and substance abuse care will be fully covered.(1)
Long term and nursing home services will be included.
You will always choose your own doctors and hospitals.
Costs of coverage will be assessed on a sliding scale basis.
Tremendously simplified system of medical administration
Total portability – your coverage not tied to any job or location.
Existing Medicare benefits for those over 65 will remain the same or be vastly improved in many cases.

(1)The United States has the unhappy distinction of having the largest inmate to total population ratio of any modern country in the world. It is estimated that a full 53% of that inmate population is being confined due to non-violent drug and addiction related issues. The combined costs to society of maintaining such a huge prison population is staggering in so many ways and accordingly, the cost savings to society of this one enormous benefit of national health insurance alone, that all drug and addiction treatment will be covered, is simply beyond calculation.

"This is an issue that has no political boundaries,
it has moral boundaries."

Elizabeth Edwards
Congressional testimony May 8th, 2008

The real irony is that this new system will be a lot less expensive and provide much better services than the largely dysfunctional system currently in place and still leave us with the best health care system in the entire world, only with the New Medicare… it will be even better!

Don’t be put off by all of the misleading and often inaccurate rhetoric that you so often hear about changing our system. For example uninformed critics will ask “Do you really want your medical decisions made by some government bureaucrat in Washington DC ?” Well, the truth is that with NHI, just about every medical decision will be made privately by you and your doctor. But ironically, under the current system, many medical decisions about what’s best for you are now being made by some corporate bureaucrat working for a private insurance company whose main concern is making larger profits by denying your claims. How exactly does that work out to be better for you??

"Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change is indeed often a very scary thing to most people, but when the need is so great and the proposed changes are so much better than the status quo, maybe changing to a NHI system in the USA is something that we can all think about supporting, whether you are a moderate, liberal or conservative, after giving it a lot of careful study and thought. Please call your congressperson and let them know what you think. They really need to hear from you on this issue.

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What is…

HR676.org,Inc.
Citizens Alliance for National Health Insurance

We are a not for profit group of concerned citizens working hard to spread the message about the tremendous health care benefits that all Americans will enjoy when we change to a NHI system. Here's the point. If you go up to a hundred people on the street and ask them if they know what H.R.676 is all about, how many of them do you think will know the answer? You say none? Well that's probably a pretty good guess.

Simply stated, our goal is to change all that by means of an on-going national multi-media (mostly radio and TV) advertising campaign. In short, we intend to make H.R. 676 a household word in every state, county, parish and district in this great country of ours confident in the fact that once the American people become aware of this bill and the tremendous benefits that it offers, a groundswell of popular support will rise up to demand its passage.

Because of the influence of the very wealthy and powerful private health insurance industry, our political representatives will NEVER pass true health insurance reform without overwhelming pressure from the American people to do so. Our purpose therefore is to help generate that pressure. The fact that most Americans are totally unaware of the existence of H.R. 676 underscores the tremendous need for a massive and ongoing nationwide multi-media advertising campaign to promote it more aggressively and encourage citizens to put pressure on their representatives in Congress to finally pass this bill. Our goal therefore, is to raise money to pay for that advertising, and other forms of various educational outreaches as well. Accordingly private donations are gratefully accepted.

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Consider this: We do not compete with all of the other groups working forNational Health Insurance They all provide invaluable sources of information and support. We just want to focus on implementing a solid plan of action to actually help make it a reality by funding a powerful and ongoing national advertising campaign to spread the word from coast to coast about the tremendous benefits that this program will provide for the American people. But it all starts with you, so please join today!

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