^{Posted on June 7, 2006}

Paul Krugman speaks on Single Payer and HR 676

Listen here: http://archive.wbai.org/pls.php?mp3fil=6207

New York Times columnist and Princeton University economics professor Paul Krugman spoke May 30 at an event sponsored by the NY Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP). His talk was entitled “A Prescription for U. S. Health Care”. Krugman is one of the nation’s leading liberal columnists and a proponent of a Single Payer/Medicare For All health care system.

“Building Bridges” a weekly radio program of WBAI-FM broadcast the talk on June 5. The radio show starts with a short Jazz interlude.

It can be found at: http://archive.wbai.org/pls.php?mp3fil=6207

The music that follows Krugman’s speech is Anne Feeney singing “We Need National Health Care Now” (www.annefeeney.com) from her “Union Maid” CD.

HR 676 now has 70 congressional co-sponsors in addition to John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI). It would institute a single payer health care system in the U.S. by expanding a greatly improved Medicare system to every resident.

HR 676 would cover every person in the U. S. for all necessary medical care including prescription drugs, hospital, surgical, outpatient services, primary and preventive care, emergency services, dental, mental health, home health, physical therapy, rehabilitation (including for substance abuse), vision care, chiropractic and long term care. HR 676 ends deductibles and co-payments. HR 676 would save billions annually by eliminating the high overhead and profits of the private health insurance industry and HMOs.

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HR 676 has been endorsed by 143 union organizations including 25 central labor councils, two state AFL-CIO’s (KY and PA), and two area labor federations.

For further information and a complete list of union endorsers contact:
Kay Tillow
All Unions Committee For Single Payer Health Care-HR 676
c/o Nurses Professional Organization (NPO)
1169 Eastern Parkway, Suite 2218
Louisville, KY 40217
(502) 636 1551, (502) 459-3393
email: nursenpo@aol.com