DeAnneShow support for single-payer insurance
July 1st 2009 20:25
Write your representatives.
Physicians for a National Health Program have on their website a form for you to write to your representatives. You may change the wording of the letter, but here is the sample text they have for you to send:
Now - if you are not a physician, you might want to change that bit, and they'll add your signature for you.
I urge everyone to help with this cause. We NEED a single payer program. It's the only solution that will work. Read the information on the PNHP website, because it explains WHY this is the only option that will really work. Even if you currently are opposed to single-payer, please read what they have to say. You just might change your mind. If not, you should still write to your representatives and let them know you YOU feel about the issue.
Physicians for a National Health Program have on their website a form for you to write to your representatives. You may change the wording of the letter, but here is the sample text they have for you to send:
Please support H.R. 676
I write as a constituent -- and as a physician -- to express my support for single-payer national health insurance and to urge you to co-sponsor H.R. 676, the U.S. National Health Care Act.
As a physician, I see the results of our health care crisis every day. More than 46 million Americans are uninsured. Even for those lucky enough to have insurance, rising costs and deteriorating coverage cause nearly a third (31 percent) to go without needed care because they can't afford it. Indeed, of the one million Americans bankrupted by medical bills annually, more than three-quarters had insurance when they got sick.
Single-payer national health insurance would save enough on administrative paperwork -- more than $350 billion per year -- to provide comprehensive coverage to all Americans. It would provide full choice of doctor and hospital for patients, and free physicians from arbitrary and meddlesome insurance-company dictates regarding patient care. It would control the health expenses currently crippling our economy and provide for a wholesome revitalization of our democratic values.
Please join with the 65 percent of Americans who support such a system and co-sponsor H.R. 676.
Sincerely,
I write as a constituent -- and as a physician -- to express my support for single-payer national health insurance and to urge you to co-sponsor H.R. 676, the U.S. National Health Care Act.
As a physician, I see the results of our health care crisis every day. More than 46 million Americans are uninsured. Even for those lucky enough to have insurance, rising costs and deteriorating coverage cause nearly a third (31 percent) to go without needed care because they can't afford it. Indeed, of the one million Americans bankrupted by medical bills annually, more than three-quarters had insurance when they got sick.
Single-payer national health insurance would save enough on administrative paperwork -- more than $350 billion per year -- to provide comprehensive coverage to all Americans. It would provide full choice of doctor and hospital for patients, and free physicians from arbitrary and meddlesome insurance-company dictates regarding patient care. It would control the health expenses currently crippling our economy and provide for a wholesome revitalization of our democratic values.
Please join with the 65 percent of Americans who support such a system and co-sponsor H.R. 676.
Sincerely,
Now - if you are not a physician, you might want to change that bit, and they'll add your signature for you.
I urge everyone to help with this cause. We NEED a single payer program. It's the only solution that will work. Read the information on the PNHP website, because it explains WHY this is the only option that will really work. Even if you currently are opposed to single-payer, please read what they have to say. You just might change your mind. If not, you should still write to your representatives and let them know you YOU feel about the issue.
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