Healthcare for All & Actions You Can Take

Healthcare for All

It is immoral for a country as wealthy as ours to have 45 million people with no health coverage, and tens of millions more with inadequate or overly expensive coverage. It also makes no economic sense; despite spending twice as much as other industrialized nations on healthcare, our system performs poorly because the private U. S. insurance bureaucracy soaks up nearly one-third of all health care money in waste, profits, paperwork and advertising. Poor health and poor health care are drags on the economy and job creation; up to half of all personal bankruptcies are caused by health care crises.

PDA supports Rep. John Conyers bill, H.R. 676, which establishes streamlined, nonprofit national health insurance--enhanced Medicare for All--which would negotiate drug and treatment costs. By replacing private insurers and recouping administrative savings of up to $300 billion per year, this single-payer approach provides topnotch health care to everyone. Care would be privately delivered by healers and hospitals, but publicly financed--with no bills, co-pays, deductibles, denials or medically-induced bankruptcies. PDA also supports health care initiatives at the state and local level that move us toward a nonprofit single-payer system.

Actions You Can Take

PRINT AND DISTRIBUTE: Healthcare Reform Report CardView READ: Healthcare for All IOT ReportView New Resources from Healthcare-NOW!: Comparing Single-Payer with the Public OptionView New from Kaiser: Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform ProposalsView Tell Congress, "Do the right thing for your constituents"View Makes calls to Congress for single payerView Know the enemy: Healthcare Industry Influence over CongressView SIGN THE PETITION: Healthcare NOT WarfareView Join the Challenge Max Baucus CampaignView Tell Media: Include Single-Payer in Healthcare DebateView Tell Congress "Order the CBO to score HR 676"View Tell the CBO Medicare for All Is the Solution You SeekView Healthcare NOT Warfare--Windmills NOT WeaponsView Read: HR 3200 Current Bill and Committee ReportsView Join the Healthcare for All IOTView Find your elected officialsView Write letters to the editorView Visit the PDA store and buy merchandise for visibilityView