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WHO KNEW THIS WAS IN THE WORKS ?

 

United States National Health Care Act

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Long title     To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes.

Acronyms (colloquial)     USNHCA / Single-Payer Health Care

Legislative history

    Introduced in the House of Representatives as H.R. 676 by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) on February 3, 2015

    Committee consideration by Committee on Energy and Commerce, Committee on Ways and Means, Committee on Natural Resources

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The United States National Health Care Act, or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act (H.R. 676), is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives by former Representative John Conyers (D-MI).[1] The bill had 49 cosponsors in 2015.

 

As of October 1, 2017, it had 120 cosponsors,[2] which amounts to a majority of the Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives and is the highest level of support the bill has ever received since Conyers began annually introducing the bill in 2003.[3]

 

The act would establish a universal single-payer health care system in the United States, the rough equivalent of Canada's Medicare and Taiwan's Bureau of National Health Insurance, among other examples.

 

Under a single-payer system, most medical care would be paid for by the Government of the United States, ending the need for private health insurance and premiums, and probably recasting private insurance companies as providing purely supplemental coverage, to be used when non-essential care is sought.

 

The national system would be paid for in part through taxes replacing insurance premiums, but also by savings realized through the provision of preventative universal healthcare and the elimination of insurance company overhead and hospital billing costs.[4]

 

An analysis of the bill by Physicians for a National Health Program estimated the immediate savings at $350 billion per year.[5]

 

Others have estimated a long-term savings amounting to 40% of all national health expenditures due to preventative health care.[6]

 

Preventative care can save several hundreds of billions of dollars per year in the U.S., because for example cancer patients are more likely to be diagnosed at Stage I where curative treatment is typically a few outpatient visits, instead of at Stage III or later in an emergency department where treatment can involve years of hospitalization and is often terminal.[7]

 

The bill was first introduced in 2003,[8] when it had 25 cosponsors, and has been reintroduced in each Congress since.

 

During the 2009 health care debates over the bill that became the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, H.R. 676 was expected to be debated and voted upon by the House in September 2009,[9] but was never debated.[10]

On 13 September 2017, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a parallel bill in the United States Senate with 16 cosponsors.[11][12][13]

The act would establish a universal single-payer health care system in the United States.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Health_Care_Act

 

[funkyy]

Every human being has the right to and should be guaranteed free health and free education, and any country with extremely rich people should not have people living in poverty within its borders.......full stop.

[Ballistic Gelatin]

27 minutes ago, funkyy said:

Every human being has the right to and should be guaranteed free health and free education..."

 

Ain't nuthin' free in this world, my friend. Someone has to pay for it.

 

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"...and any country with extremely rich people should not have people living in poverty within its borders."

 

LOL, show me a country where income redistribution has worked. Just one.

[funkyy]

1 hour ago, Ballistic Gelatin said:

 

Ain't nuthin' free in this world, my friend. Someone has to pay for it.

 

 

LOL, show me a country where income redistribution has worked. Just one.

Obviously these things get "paid for" through taxes for example. In the UK health care and education are "free", paid for through taxes, National Insurance etc deductions are taken from salaries to pay for the National Health Service which means if you have to be taken into hospital for major surgery The doctors aren't going to be looking through your wallet to see if you have money to pay for the surgery. Health care is free in this way for everyone. Prescriptions from a GP are only paid for if you are working full-time...they are free for the unemployed, old-age pensioners, students doing full-time education etc.

And of course there is a private health care system that was encouraged by Margaret Thatcher and her cronies to try to undermine the existence of a free NHS. That private health business is used principally by those with plenty of money, who want treated in nice private clinics with less waiting time even for non-urgent surgery. The NHS in the UK is not perfect, mainly because of the right wing trying to undermine it by cutting its financing and trying to entice trainee doctors and nurses over to the private sector.

One of the characteristics of those who are fortunate enough to be comfortably wealthy is to say, as you have said, "Ain't nothing free in this world....someone has to pay for it" because they don't like the idea of the working class having access to good free health and education...Oh but they just love and praise the working classes when they need to send huge armies to fight in foreign lands..World War I for example, where hundreds of thousands of young men and boys went to the slaughter in the Somme and other battlefields in France just for the vanity of the rich elite class of Britain and Germany. And then there's Vietnam...was that worth all the dead on both sides? Did it save the USA way of life?

Health and Education should not be treated as a business.

And I wasn't talking about "income redistribution LOL".