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The Solution...
Medicare for All - America’s Public Option
Every other modern, developed country in the world has created some kind of government run national health insurance system that covers all of its citizens and provides adequate and affordable health care for all. Are these other systems perfect and problem free? By no means, but the problems that they have are miniscule compared to the ones created by the disgustingly immoral catastrophic system that has America in such a suffocating death grip.
Our own MEDICARE is a very successful government run single-payer health insurance system. It is ranked as one of the top five medical management systems in the world. If we were to simply set aside the age 65 requirement to join and allowed every American citizen or legal resident to buy into it as a health insurance option at fair but adequate market rate premiums we would IMMEDIATELY accomplish several things.
Provide real competition to private for-profit health insurance companies which would be forced to lower rates and provide better service in order to stay in business.
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End the problem of the uninsured in America because the government would provide subsidies to those legitimately unable to afford even low-cost Medicare premiums.
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Go a long way towards solving Medicare’s financial problems by bringing in billions of premium dollars from a younger and healthier population that could be offered special incentives for early enrollment such as long term premium caps and so forth.
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Eliminate the need for 2000+ page health reform bills as the competition provided by Medicare would solve most, if not all of the existing problems in our private system in a few short years.
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So, what are some of the arguments that you hear against having such a program in America?
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SOCIALIZED MEDICINE – Medicare is NOT socialized Medicine. It is just a very efficient form of health insurance administered by the government. All of the doctors, nurses and most of the hospitals remain private. Government insurance is not a unique concept nor is it some insidious threat to our freedoms or way of life. Did you know for example that ALL flood insurance in America is underwritten by Uncle Sam?
LEVEL PLAYING FIELD – Many have complained that the government imposes unfair competition in the insurance market because they do not face the same expenses as private providers. This may be a valid argument in other areas of free market commerce but where the health and welfare of the American People are concerned, this argument simply cannot stand up. In fact, the private sector has proven itself to be completely incapable of providing adequate and affordable health insurance for all! As stewards of our health care system they have utterly failed in their sacred responsibility of protecting the well being of America by placing profits over people. Hundreds die daily due to lack of access to health care. Where is the outrage from our “pro-life” neighbors over this issue? Their help in this effort could literally save thousands of lives every year.
ECONOMIC AFFORDABILITY – Needed improvements to Medicare reimbursement rates will make it a much more fair system for all providers. The infusion of billions of premium dollars from a younger and healthier population of American citizens and legal residents will measurably improve the economic outlook of health care in America.
GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM – This cannot happen unless and until huge majorities of Americans choose for it to happen by their selection of Medicare as their primary insurance provider. If such turns out to be the free will of the people, how can anybody legitimately object? Also, it is likely that private health insurance will continue to provide supplemental health plans for those more affluent members of our society who will want more in the way of special benefits than the basic Medicare policy provides.
CONSTITUTIONALITY - The Constitution of the United States in the very first paragraph admonishes the federal government to provide for the "general welfare". What could be clearer than that?
RATIONED CARE – This is possibly the craziest argument of them all! We actually have massive rationed care NOW under our private for-profit health insurance system. Health care under the private sector is rationed based on your ability to pay. But there is NO rationed care under Medicare now so why should it suddenly appear under Medicare for All which will be much better funded than the current program?
A THREAT TO OUR FREEDOM- Many fear that government run health insurance represents a mortal threat to our American way of life but in fact there have been many solutions to societal problems over the years that have included government participation without bringing about a gulag society in America. There are just some few issues that the government can handle more beneficially and more efficiently than the private sector can and health insurance is CLEARLY one of those issues The real threat to our society is to be found in continuing to rely exclusively on a greed and profit driven private health insurance industry that has already demonstrated over the years with such stunning clarity their fundamental lack of concern for the welfare of the American people by purposefully denying coverage to millions and allowing millions more to die and go bankrupt for NO OTHER REASON than to support their profits.
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If you agree with this proposition then please join us today and help finance the education of the American public and their elected representatives as to the benefits of Medicare for All as America’s Public Option.
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.
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