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What Is MICHAEL MOORE Purpose?
We are building, supporting, encouraging a movement for a Guaranteed National Health Insurance System in this country, quality healthcare for every human being.
How do we get healthcare for everybody?
One person at a time, one organization, union, church, synagogue, mosque, community center, neighborhood at a time... Here's how we do it: By developing an empowered leadership at the grassroots who understand the issue and engage in a variety of tactics to make it happen. No one tactic or strategy will move something this big. No one organization can do it. Top down efforts have never worked and that is why, for at least a dozen years, people have been led to believe that we cannot get real universal health care in this country. People have tried over and over to get national healthcare from the top down -- but it won't work. We are the ones that must make it happen. Every other advanced nation has it, but many people are still negative about the prospect of getting it here because the media and the politicians have deemed it impossible. We invite you to be a part of this effort. Our work is to convince everybody -- the business community, the press, the groups in the chronic disease organizations, the ethnic communities, the white middle class, the poor and destitute, the veterans, our teenagers, our clergy, our union leaders, AND our members of Congress that we can afford healthcare for everybody.
In fact, we cannot afford not to have it. Moreover a national single-payer healthcare system would be, not only less expensive for all of us, it would be the best thing to happen to our economy in decades, estimated by economists to be savings of 1.1 trillion dollars over the next 15 years. Physicians For A National Health Program reports that under a single payer plan, we could save over $286 billion dollars a year in total health care costs. Under HR 676, a family of three making $40,000 per year would spend approximately $1600 per year or about $133 per month for healthcare coverage. Everybody would pay something into the national healthcare fund -- on a sliding scale -- depending on their income. But they would no longer receive healthcare bills. They would no longer pay co-pays and deductibles; they would no longer be denied prevention, a doctor of their choice, and care when they need it. The United States National Health Insurance Act would allow the United States to reduce its almost $2 trillion health care expenditure each year while covering all of the uninsured and all of us for more benefits than we are getting under their current insurance company plans. In 2005, without reform, the average employer who offers coverage will contribute $2,600 to health care per employee ( for much skimpier benefits). Under HR 676, the average costs to employers for an employee making $30,000 per year will be reduced to $1,155 per year, less than $100 per month.We will all get extra money in our pockets almost immediately when we win a single payer system -- publicly financed but privately administered by doctors for the patients who choose them. No one will be mandated to have a particular plan or doctor or regime. Everybody, businesses and individuals, will pay a sliding scale premium based on their income. No insurance company profits will be needed and drug company profits will be limited to a reasonable amount by mass purchasing. Everyone will be able to choose their doctor without coercion, with no doctor or hospital bills , co-pays, deductibles or denials of care. And these small premiums would pay for doctors, hospitals, surgeries, prescription drugs, dental and optical, drug treatment, mental health and long term care. These would all be included in a single payer system. Summary of the Legislation
We do have a strategy for how to do this, but you have to help. We have provided a list of actions that you can take including simply donating to the cause. Please read on to find out what the problem is, and how we can fix it.
Send checks to Healthcare-NOW, 339 Lafayette Street New York , NY 10012 . For tax deduction, mark them to (IFCO).
"We're going to run a complete battery of tests starting with your credit rating." By Barbara Smaller
We are building, supporting, encouraging a movement for a Guaranteed National Health Insurance System in this country, quality healthcare for every human being.
How do we get healthcare for everybody?
One person at a time, one organization, union, church, synagogue, mosque, community center, neighborhood at a time... Here's how we do it: By developing an empowered leadership at the grassroots who understand the issue and engage in a variety of tactics to make it happen. No one tactic or strategy will move something this big. No one organization can do it. Top down efforts have never worked and that is why, for at least a dozen years, people have been led to believe that we cannot get real universal health care in this country. People have tried over and over to get national healthcare from the top down -- but it won't work. We are the ones that must make it happen. Every other advanced nation has it, but many people are still negative about the prospect of getting it here because the media and the politicians have deemed it impossible. We invite you to be a part of this effort. Our work is to convince everybody -- the business community, the press, the groups in the chronic disease organizations, the ethnic communities, the white middle class, the poor and destitute, the veterans, our teenagers, our clergy, our union leaders, AND our members of Congress that we can afford healthcare for everybody.
In fact, we cannot afford not to have it. Moreover a national single-payer healthcare system would be, not only less expensive for all of us, it would be the best thing to happen to our economy in decades, estimated by economists to be savings of 1.1 trillion dollars over the next 15 years. Physicians For A National Health Program reports that under a single payer plan, we could save over $286 billion dollars a year in total health care costs. Under HR 676, a family of three making $40,000 per year would spend approximately $1600 per year or about $133 per month for healthcare coverage. Everybody would pay something into the national healthcare fund -- on a sliding scale -- depending on their income. But they would no longer receive healthcare bills. They would no longer pay co-pays and deductibles; they would no longer be denied prevention, a doctor of their choice, and care when they need it. The United States National Health Insurance Act would allow the United States to reduce its almost $2 trillion health care expenditure each year while covering all of the uninsured and all of us for more benefits than we are getting under their current insurance company plans. In 2005, without reform, the average employer who offers coverage will contribute $2,600 to health care per employee ( for much skimpier benefits). Under HR 676, the average costs to employers for an employee making $30,000 per year will be reduced to $1,155 per year, less than $100 per month.We will all get extra money in our pockets almost immediately when we win a single payer system -- publicly financed but privately administered by doctors for the patients who choose them. No one will be mandated to have a particular plan or doctor or regime. Everybody, businesses and individuals, will pay a sliding scale premium based on their income. No insurance company profits will be needed and drug company profits will be limited to a reasonable amount by mass purchasing. Everyone will be able to choose their doctor without coercion, with no doctor or hospital bills , co-pays, deductibles or denials of care. And these small premiums would pay for doctors, hospitals, surgeries, prescription drugs, dental and optical, drug treatment, mental health and long term care. These would all be included in a single payer system. Summary of the Legislation
We do have a strategy for how to do this, but you have to help. We have provided a list of actions that you can take including simply donating to the cause. Please read on to find out what the problem is, and how we can fix it.
Send checks to Healthcare-NOW, 339 Lafayette Street New York , NY 10012 . For tax deduction, mark them to (IFCO).
"We're going to run a complete battery of tests starting with your credit rating." By Barbara Smaller
Healthcare-NOW is a national campaign for a quality guaranteed non-profit single payer healthcare system in the United States.
WE CAN AFFORD IT. We are challenging the myth that we cannot afford a national healthcare system in this country. We know that statement is not true. Every other advanced nation has universal healthcare. We are rated number 37 in the world among nations -- many of whom have much fewer resources than we do.
WE ARE PAYING ALMOST TWICE AS MUCH PER CAPITA as the closest other nation in the world. Yet, many of those countries are rated higher by the World Health Organization. 41 countries have better infant mortality rates than the United States including South Korea, Cyprus, and Slovenia.
WE REPRESENT MORE THAN 70% of the POPULATION We are business people, labor unions, people of all faiths, doctors, nurses, students, workers, and above all, families who seek to have the great healthcare system that we are already paying for.
WE WANT A BETTER CLIMATE FOR OUR BUSINESS ECONOMY Many other countries are rated as better places to do business because of their "seamless healthcare systems" including Finland and New Zealand. We are already spending enough money for a national healthcare system that would cover everybody for much better benefits, but we are not getting better healthcare and almost 50 million of us have no benefits at all.
HEALTHCARE NOW IS ACTIVE IN MORE THAN 300 CITIES IN ALMOST EVERY STATE. Come join us. Send us an e-mail and become a part of the campaign. info@healthcare-now.org
AS WINSTON CHURCHILL SAID, "The Americans can be counted on to do the right thing, after they have tried everything else." Now is the time to abandon all of those failed policies and go to single payer.
WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED. Ms. Fannie Lou Hamer shouted these fighting words in 1965 at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. She fought on until the Voting Rights Act was passed. We want to do the same thing with health care as a human right. Healthcare is the new civil rights/ human rights movement. Become a member. Join us!
MANY PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE WE CAN GET A NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THIS COUNTRY. We have been brainwashed -- convinced that we need insurance companies to handle the money and pay the bills for healthcare rather than a single payer system that would eliminate those tremendous extra costs for multiple administration, lobbying, advertising and ceo profits. Many people think it would cost more money to provide healthcare for all, but that is not true. Not if we cut out the unconscionable profits raked off by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. It is a matter of political will.
ANOTHER MYTH -- THAT A GOVERNMENT FUNDED PROGRAM WOULD NOT BE AS GOOD AS A PRIVATE FOR-PROFIT PROGRAM although we have abundant evidence that this is not true. Look at the Bush Prescription Drug Program (Part D). It is a bureaucratic and costly fiasco that provides huge profits for the pharmaceutical companies and forbids people the freedom to get their necessary medications directly from Medicare. The Veterans Administration, a government program proven to be superior to other hospitals, provides drugs at a fraction of the cost through economies of scale and negotiations good business practices. Why not do the same for the rest of us under an improved regular Medicare drug program where prices would be negotiated on the basis of a huge pool of participants, all 300 million of us?
THE GOOD NEWS We can end the long waiting lines for healthcare in the U.S. Almost 50 million of us have no coverage; another 50 million are partially covered, paying huge deductibles and co-pays, getting denials from the insurance company, or living in fear that their employer will drop them, raise the co-pays, or cancel their insurance.
WE CAN HAVE MUCH MORE FREEDOM OF CHOICE of doctors and medical procedures.
YOU CAN HELP -- You will be healthier and wealthier. We will all be healthier and wealthier, if we can change this healthcare system the sooner the better. We must inform more and more people about this possibility and how to succeed. YOU CAN HELP. Go to Take Action for a national healthcare system for all NOW.
CAN WE DO THIS? Of course we can. IT'S UP TO YOU!
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