Conyers’ Single Payer Legislation
Newark, DE-On the eve of the UAW’s international union convention this week in Las Vegas, UAW Local 1183, representing 2,000 workers at the Daimler/Chrysler assembly plant here, has endorsed HR 676, a bill introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) to institute a single payer health care system in the U.S.
UAW local unions and CAP Councils in Birmingham, AL, West Mifflin, PA, Detroit, MI, Chicago, IL, and Holyoke, MA, have sent resolutions to the convention urging support for HR 676.
HR 676 now has 70 congressional co-sponsors in addition to John Conyers. 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 144 union organizations including 26 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