Whereas 1/3 of the U.S. population is uninsured or poorly insured;
Whereas 31,000 deaths a year could be prevented by ensuring that all patients receive quality care in a timely manner;
Whereas over 59% of physicians, 160,000 nurses and over 500 unions in 49 states now support a national Single-Payer health insurance system for everyone;
And Whereas We the community of Vancouver and the larger community of Clark County believe our healthcare system must include everyone and exclude no one ;
Be It Resolved That: We call on all of our local and state representatives to endorse HR 676, and our US Congress to pass HR 676; a non-profit national healthcare program that will provide guaranteed, comprehensive, and affordable quality healthcare and prescription drugs to everyone in the country. Healthcare is a human right and our health is NOT for sale.
Whereas 1/3 of the U.S. population is uninsured or poorly insured;
Whereas 31,000 deaths a year could be prevented by ensuring that all patients receive quality care in a timely manner;
Whereas over 59% of physicians, 160,000 nurses and over 500 unions in 49 states now support a national Single-Payer health insurance system for everyone;
And Whereas We the community of Vancouver and the larger community of Clark County believe our healthcare system must include everyone and exclude no one ;
Be It Resolved That: We call on all of our local and state representatives to endorse HR 676, and our US Congress to pass HR 676; a non-profit national healthcare program that will provide guaranteed, comprehensive, and affordable quality healthcare and prescription drugs to everyone in the country. Healthcare is a human right and our health is NOT for sale.
We signed the "Single-Payer HealthCare HR 676" petition!
# 91:
5:48 pm PDT, Oct 23,Name not displayed, Minnesota
# 90:
3:55 am PDT, Oct 20,Andrey Semyanihin, Russian Federation
I in Russia have a concept "Hippocratic Oath" and it is a major principle of ALL doctors of the country. If it is not observed that there can be a criminal case, and term of deprivation of liberty can constitute 7-10 years.
# 89:
6:11 pm PDT, Oct 15,Charles Marhoefer, Pennsylvania
# 88:
8:42 am PDT, Oct 9,Lynn Crandall, Arizona
# 87:
7:35 am PDT, Oct 5,John Warrior, Oklahoma
I am a registered voter, and a disabled American Veteran...I will not vote for any candidate in the next election who does not support health care reform.
# 86:
10:08 pm PDT, Sep 29,Name not displayed, Connecticut
# 85:
5:25 am PDT, Sep 22,Eli Is Here, Pennsylvania
# 84:
8:20 pm PDT, Sep 16,Name not displayed, New York
# 83:
10:01 am PDT, Sep 16,Name not displayed, Illinois
Get the 2000+ private insurance companies out of the current woefully inadequate U.S. 'health care' system. Our health care is everyone's worst nightmare when one needs it most. Endless rejections of payment, incoherent policy changes, 'pre-existing conditions, etc.. Shameful and all in the name of greed.
# 82:
2:17 pm PDT, Sep 14,Tierney Grinavic, Maryland
# 81:
10:54 am PDT, Sep 5,Leone Fogle-Hechler, Washington
I become increasingly alarmed as I see the big corporations and Americans who support them try to hijack our future. Most Americans want a single payer system. How bad does our economy have to get, how many families have to go bankrupt, how many individuals have to go without medical coverage before our representatives do for us what they have been hired to do?
# 80:
5:51 pm PDT, Sep 4,Barbara Hyatt, Nevada
Barbara Hyatt
# 79:
8:03 am PDT, Sep 3,Jill Pearson, Georgia
# 78:
8:24 pm PDT, Sep 1,Dave Kane, New York
My "health insurance" went up 12-15% every year until it was just too expensive. And I had to fight with them when they had to shell out.
# 77:
1:36 pm PDT, Sep 1,Patricia Nigro, Florida
In a Country as rich as ours I just can't understand why everyone should not have health insurance. With so many people losing their jobs their COBRA would be so expensive for them to pay every month with no paycheck coming in, they still have their house payments to make, utilities, food etc. So many people are saying that they have good health insurance and why should they have to pay for others who don't, I would like to see what they would do if they suddenly lost theirs.
# 76:
11:05 am PDT, Sep 1,Susan Thompson, Florida
We have been "talking" about getting everyone quality and equal healthcare for all since way back. I think even to JFK. Well, lets "geter done!" Do you Think?
Sorry, those that have, gotta think about the don't haves once in awhile!
# 75:
2:29 pm PDT, Aug 31,KRISTEN BREITWEG, Florida
i JUST DO NOT WANT TOLOSE MY MEDICADE.
# 74:
2:27 pm PDT, Aug 31,Barbara Liebowitz, New Jersey
# 73:
2:24 pm PDT, Aug 31,Merrily Ligon, South Carolina
# 72:
12:26 am PDT, Aug 31,Glenn Ligon, South Carolina
Such an obvious and widely effective action! Medicare has its flaws, like the doughnut-hole, and lack of dental and vision care, but this bill is a terrific start. Build on the already existing infrastructure of one of the most efficient programs the USA has!
# 71:
9:24 pm PDT, Aug 30,Darlene Davis, Michigan
# 70:
10:14 pm PDT, Aug 27,Name not displayed, Washington
Single-Payer HealthCare will have many more possitive effects than we can imagine. We can not allow Corporate America scare us again.
# 69:
7:30 pm PDT, Aug 22,Susan Chapman-Jones, California
The time is long overdue for the United States to join all the other civilized nations in the world and provide health care for all citizens. In their preamble, the founders stated that one of the major purposes for establishing the U.S. Constitution was to "promote the general Welfare." There can be no "general welfare" without health care. Thus far, the Court had specified only three fundament rights—voting, education, and interstate travel. Like education, health care should be a right and not a privilege for the fortunate among us.
Many thousands are dying because they have no means of accessing health care; many others, who are insured, are dying because for-profit health insurance companies reward employees for denying requests for medical tests/treatment. This situation is unconscionable. It is also diametrically opposed to the American principle of equality, first stated in the Declaration and inferred in the 14th Amendment's "equal protection" clause. In equal protection analyses “poverty” and “economic class” are designated de jure “facial classifications” even as health insurance companies continue unregulated and unethical, discriminatory practices against low income, underprivileged citizens.
Health care should not be a commodity, like houses or cars, available only to those who can afford it. Health care should not be left in the hands of corporations whose raison d'être is to make the biggest profits possible. It is time for the government to intervene, state by state if necessary, and designate health care, like education, a fundamental right.
# 68:
4:49 pm PDT, Aug 19,Linn Bayne, New Mexico
medicare is socialized health care!
# 67:
8:52 am PDT, Aug 19,Ashley Skaer, Virginia
# 66:
12:19 pm PDT, Aug 18,Jim Phillips, California
# 65:
9:50 pm PDT, Aug 17,Ray Ables, Alabama
# 64:
4:09 pm PDT, Aug 16,Name not displayed, Wisconsin
# 63:
9:48 am PDT, Aug 16,Judith Sommer, Georgia
# 62:
5:52 pm PDT, Aug 15,Name not displayed, California
# 61:
4:54 pm PDT, Aug 15,Carole Sarcinello, Tennessee
# 60:
12:02 am PDT, Aug 14,Kathryn Melton, Texas
# 59:
7:38 pm PDT, Aug 13,Gretchen Leavitt, Texas
# 58:
7:59 pm PDT, Aug 11,Elaine Kuhar, Pennsylvania
# 57:
10:47 pm PDT, Aug 10,Jasmine Walton, California
# 56:
12:20 pm PDT, Aug 9,Ray Farinella, Indiana
# 55:
9:21 am PDT, Aug 9,Jane Foster, Oregon
Please don't be intimidated by the pressure from big insurance and pharmaceutical companys. We need serious health care reform now!
# 54:
2:48 am PDT, Aug 7,Mchelle Ognjanovic, New York
real health care reform, now!
# 53:
6:22 pm PDT, Aug 6,Name not displayed, New York
A single-payer system is the ONLY workable health care system. There's a reason U.S. health care ranks #37 in the world. There's a reason why the citizens of all other industrialized nations live longer and lose fewer babies in infancy. And it's not because they drink wine with dinner. It's because they have access to free health care for everyone! If it's not doable, then why are so many other countries successfully doing it?
Obama's plan, while a step in the right direction, ultimately can't work. Universal health care is successful in other countries because the absence of for-profit companies eliminates the tremendous expenditures incurred by private insurance providers and the medical personnel who must deal with them while creating one big risk pool. Obama's current plan will do neither.
Single-payer systems also reduce pharmaceutical price gouging and reward doctors for preventive care rather than rewarding company bigwigs for denying it. As long as the private insurers are still at the table, we won't see any changes there either.
The bottom line is that wherever health care is a for-profit industry, people will be denied care because the only way a business can work is if it takes in more money than it pays out. We won't be as healthy as the rest of the world until we have a true single-payer system!
# 52:
1:24 am PDT, Aug 3,Ian Shipp, Arizona
# 51:
1:21 am PDT, Aug 3,Ruben De Anda, California
Health is not a luxury, America. Silly humans.
