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Dear Congress Member:

Voters in the 2006 Midterm election have made clear that healthcare is their #1 domestic priority. 83% of those polled say they want a government supported national healthcare system. The insurance and pharmaceutical corporations have continued to raise prices, their own profits, and their controls over doctors and patients, imposing a terrible crisis on all of us. In fact we are suffering the most urgent healthcare crisis in the history of our country.

 

This letter comes to urge you to endorse and to pass H.R. 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act during this coming Congress. If you have already signed on as an endorser along with 78 other Members, we thank you and ask you to do it again. This is truly important for your constituents. If you have not done so, please do respond to the desperation of the people in your District and commit to sign on in January.

 

This is a huge issue for middle class voters.

Current statistics show that in 2001, 28% of middle class Americans with incomes between $20,000 and $40,000 were without healthcare at some point in the calendar year. By 2005, that number has risen to 41% of that income category. We are the workers of this country. We are the people who keep this economy going. (Leif Wellington Haase, The Century Foundation)

 

In addition, businesses are working at a terrible disadvantage as they strive to keep good employees and at the same time struggle to pay the increasing healthcare bills. Many of them have simply raised the premiums and co-pays and deductibles to meet the demands of the insurance companies. As a result, many of uscan no longer afford to have insurance. Large corporations are at a 16% disadvantage in the world market as a result of this flawed healthcare system. And workers are actively looking for employment in a place where they can have secure health coverage leaving many small businesses without committed employees.

 

H.R. 676 is the only sensible answer. It would save the U.S. economy because it would cost so much less than what we are now spending. We are a rich and powerful nation, and we can easily afford to pass this important legislation that would mean so much to all who live in this great land.

 

If you have committed to endorse and work for H.R. 676, we thank you. If not, I am urging you to make this very important commitment for the people of your District and of our country. Please let me hear from you on this issue.

Sincerely,