Welcome to Unions for Single Payer Health CarePass HR 676! Make health care a human right!Workers, our families and our unions are waging a difficult struggle to win or to keep good health care coverage. There is a better way. Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) has introduced HR 676, national single payer legislation. The single-payer financing in HR 676 saves the money to improve coverage for all of us as we expand care to those who have been left out. The bill restores free choice of physicians to patients. HR 676 ends deductibles and co-payments and saves hundreds of billions by eliminating the private health insurance industry with its high overhead and profits. Our unions must lead the way!We must build the movement that wins passage of HR 676 and makes health care a human right. 1,000 unions cannot be ignored!The All Unions Committee for Single Payer Healthcare — HR 676 has undertaken the task to win the endorsement of 1,000 local unions and other labor bodies for this bold and just legislation. We're creating an honor roll of those unions that have endorsed HR 676. We're asking you to join this struggle. Ask your union to endorse HR 676.
"Our approach should be to build on what's best in American health care. At the same time, we should draw from the best experiences of other countries that have achieved universal coverage at a fraction of U.S. health care costs. "The union movement must marshal its resources for a renewed all-out assault to end the current health care crisis.... There is no institution in America better suited or better able to take on this task." "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." |