Please join the ongoing fight to make MEDICARE for ALL America's Public Option!

This bill still represents the ultimate goal of HR676.org, Inc. but now that the legislative path has been temporarily blocked by the huge and powerful health insurance lobby and their corrupt control over Congress, we believe that the new "Medicare for All" approach is the best strategy available for acheiving the goal of affordable health insurance for all in America.

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

Sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)


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Perhaps the day will come again when we can raise the banner of this legislation once again and fight for it's passage. Clearly this can never happen until the corporate money changers that corrupt our congress with their bribes and payoffs are driven from the temple. In the meantime, let us gather our strength and resolve to struggle on for a plan that for now is somewhat more attainable, namely "Medicare for All".

Read The Text Of The Original Bill 

Original Mission Statement

Health Insurance Reform… we’ve been talking about it for over fifty years now but the situation just keeps getting worse with each passing year.  Premiums continue to increase and benefits continue to diminish as corporate profits continue to dominate as the primary objective.  Even the new progressive administration in Washington D.C. proposes yet another convoluted hybrid plan that will do little if anything to relieve our health care system of the $660 Billion dollar annual burden of obscene corporate profits, grotesque CEO salaries and the administrative nightmare caused by the existence of over 1200 competing insurance company systems.

At the very same time, few Americans are aware that there is a bill in Congress RIGHT NOW that will change all that and actually create a single-payer national health insurance system for all in the United States simply by expanding and improving Medicare, one of the best and most efficient medical managements systems in the world. This new improved and expanded Medicare will cover everybody and everything including prescription drugs, dental care, nursing home care and much, much more at prices that we can all afford. There will be no more expensive co-pays or deductibles.  Exclusions for pre-existing conditions will be a thing of the past.  No American will ever again be forced into bankruptcy because of health care debt.  The bill is called House Resolution (H.R.) 676.  It's what we've all been waiting for and if we all join hands and get behind it, IT WILL PASS!

It’s great that so many organizations have sprung up over the past several years to support the cause of national health insurance for all but nevertheless it seems clear that in the face of the overwhelming power of the private health insurance industry that there is no moral argument powerful enough to loosen their grip on the system itself or on our political institutions that, for whatever reason choose to continue to support them.  Accordingly, a real single-payer health care system can never become a reality in this country until tens of millions of Americans are somehow motivated to participate in this struggle. Meanwhile, even though H.R. 676 was first proposed back in 2003, almost nobody outside of a somewhat esoteric circle of politically minded people is remotely aware that it even exists.  Stand on any street corner in any city or town in America and ask the first 100, 500, 1000 or even 10,000 people that walk by what they know about H.R. 676 and you will see what I mean. The silence will be deafening!  This MUST change, and soon,  if there is to be any hope of achieving the ultimate success!

Of course there are many outstanding and excellent organizations working for this cause besides ours and they do a tremendous job in providing organizational efforts and informational resources to many, many thousands.  We believe however that the job calls for reaching out to literally millions in a way that only professional media advertising can do and that is what WE are all about. If you agree with this assessment and you are committed to helping make this dream a reality, as are we, then please help or contribute to this effort by supporting HR676.org, Inc. in any way that you can.

That’s where we come in.  Here at HR676.org, Inc., the Citizens Alliance for National Health Insurance, our sole purpose is to raise the funds necessary to finance an ongoing national media campaign to inform everyone in America that this bill exists and to make them aware of the tremendous benefits that it will bring to our people when it is finally passed.  Now for sure, the big national health insurance corporations will do everything they can to prevent the passage of this bill.  But we are confident that once the word gets out to the people about H. R. 676, a tidal wave of popular support will rise up that will all but guarantee its passage.


 Thanks so much for your help and support…

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What Is Single-Payer National Health Insurance?

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 the House of Representatives simply creates a new and far more functional “single payer” method of collecting and distributing payments 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!

 

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

  • Every resident 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 be vastly improved.
  • No corporate bureaucrat will ever come between you and your Doctor to deny your care.
(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 expensive, complicated, insane and 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 the new Medicare, 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.

And don't be fooled and misled by those that will lie to you and try to scare you by making up stories about how terrible similar national health care systems are in other countries.  They will tell you about long waits and denied services but when you actually talk to the citizens of these other countries you will find that the vast majority of them deny that any such problems actually exist and speak very highly of the care and treatment that they receive in their home countries.  Certainly none of them would ever elect to change their country's system to ours!

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 single-payer national health insurance 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…

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

 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 single-payer national health insurance 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.

People often ask, "I am only one person,
what can I possibly do to make a difference?"
If you are one of those people, then here is your answer...


Membership in HR676.org, Inc. is voluntarily assessed at $.99 cents per month per person and accepted in an annual donation of $10.98 (one month Free).  Larger donations are, of course, gratefully accepted as well and will help to increase our momentum and effectiveness that much more, but all gifts of every size are deeply appreciated.

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!

Please note: Companies that offer health insurance coverage as a benefit for their employees will themselves benefit greatly from the significantly lower costs of that same coverage under the New Medicare.  Accordingly, commercial sponsorships of HR676.org, Inc. are greatly encouraged for the mutual benefit of all concerned.