Materials For The Media

A Message To The Media

 

Members Of Congress Must Begin To Respond To The Voters. Healthcare-NOW is determined to hammer away on the issue until we get a national single payer healthcare system that covers everyone. 

 

The Surveys Show that the Majority wants a National Healthcare System:

That’s where you come in. The statistics and the surveys and the polls are all in agreement. Everybody (more than 65% or more) wants a national healthcare system – government-guaranteed healthcare for everybody. (See Pew Survey)

A single-payer system such as an improved Medicare for All is the way we can get health care for everybody, and do it without spending more money than we are now spending.

 

There are dozens of new incremental ideas and bills opposing single payer -- calling for state plans (all of which would funnel more money into the insurance companies) and trying to get the federal government to give a few more states some money to try, yet again, to produce some kind of health care legislation for one single state keeping the profit system intact.

 

The Bottom Line is the Bottom Line

For the healthcare industrial complex, the bottom line is how much more money will the be able to stuff in their pockets if we pass legislation that keeps them in control of the healthcare system.

For us, the bottom line is how to remove them from this control and make the healthcare system a system that belongs to us, the public. 

 

Most of the plans being talked about in Congress will not get us to national healthcare for everybody – at least not for a very long time – after those systems have failed to produce what we really need, a less expensive and totally comprehensive national single payer plan. “Everybody in; Nobody Out! Only H.R. 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act gets us to a comprehensive quality system for all.

 

The stars are lining up in our favor. Candidates all over the country are speaking out for a national single payer healthcare system. The public, even the media, is beginning to understand the single payer terminology and how it would work for everybody in the United States.