Support HR 676 - Congress Proposal to open Medicare to Everyone
Contact your Congressman (below) to voice your desire for Medicare to be available to EVERYONE; you pay for it, why shouldn't you have it to use if you need it?
I've NOT seen anything in the newspapers, on TV, or heard anything on the radio. I found out about this through a physician that is lobbying for health care reform. Insurance companies will be lobbying against this, we the People must lobby our Representatives to make sure they understand our position on health care reform. Open Medicare for EVERYONE's benefit.
There are almost 10,000 Health Insurance Companies in the United States, and that adds Billions of dollars in cost due to duplicated administrative personnel. You pay these salaries in elevated health care costs.
Physicians for healthcare reform:
http://www.pnhp.org/publications/the_national_health_insurance_bill_hr_676.php
The people not covered by Medicare are 18 to 65, the lowest health risk group that also pays for all of Medicare. In the last 30 years I've only seen a doctor once. Yet I pay for medicare continuously. Recently, Medicare was changed to cover only 80 percent of any medical bill, so a retired person on a fixed income MUST still pay an insurance company to cover medical care and prescriptions. I can buy my heart medication for 1/10th the cost in Mexico; where does the profit go in the US?
Given that BlueCross/BlueShield provides supplemental health to cover everything that Medicare doesn't cover for about $100 a month, why wouldn't we want Medicare as our National Healthcare?
Currently, it costs a family of three around $600 out of pocket and garnished income every month for partial health care.
Contact all your Representatives to support H.R. 676
To find & email your specific Congressmen and Senators:
Your State's Congressmen
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Your States' Senators
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
To email Congressman all across the United States:
http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm
To talk directly with the staff of your representatives:
(202) 225-3121 for the House
(202) 224-3121 for the Senate
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Call everyone on your cell phone contact list, and have them call everyone on their cell phone.
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This should have been done a long time ago.
But to make the transition easier, they should open Medicare to all age groups in stages to prevent an inrush into the hospitals.
For example:
The First year is opened to 0 to 18 and 50+
The Second year is opened to 0-18 and 35+
The Third year is opened to EVERYONE
I contacted my Reps to support HR 676
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Is it duplicated administration, or does each case need to be tracked? If 10,000 insurance companies were merged into 5 companies... how much could be saved? Right now I wish the USA had more than three automakers because more variations mean more innovation. In fact, I'd like to see a new wave of anti-trust breakups to dissolve all the merged companies from the last 20 years.
I do agree the admin costs need to be cut, but let's be sure we do the best thing. If everyone gets medicare because we already pay for it... where do the extra dollars come from?
I see prevention and technology as the ways to save money & help people, I made an alternate suggestion along these lines.
In Canada, we have "socialized" medicine. We all pay in through payroll and sales taxes, and everybody is fully covered for almost everthing (there are some odd exceptions, eg, men's PSA tests).
Sure, the system is very expensive and, sure, some doctors bitch about controls on their incomes, and, sure, some of Canucks complain that they have to wait in line for various tests/treatments. But, overall, it works.
The US could do well to mimic our OHIP, etc.
I will vote for it if congress agrees they will be covered by it instead of their current plan.
Americans are long behind every OECD country on this one... It was about time, but don't get too excited, cause as Chris Rock puts it doctors are just legal drug dealers, the looming issue is how not get to the point where they have to patch/stitch you up! However, once healtch care becomes public enterprise, many issues will be brought to a whole new level... Take smoking in Canada (has had public healthcare for about 30 years), now banned in every workplace, club, bar, restaurant, commercial enclosed space... Also a pack of smokes costs $8-12, because of high tobacco taxes... Why? Because smokers create vast medical expenses for the public healthcare system, due to their prominent rates of infarcts (heart failure) and lung cancer. PRovince of Ontario is even taking tobacco companies to the court to account for all the health issues and related expenses... It will take some time till we acknowledge the impact of junk food and take measures to limit its operation, by taxing it (after all its consumption only crates vast diabetes and heart related issues)