Read the full text of H.R. 676 (or access a brief summary of the bill)
Read PNHP’s news release, and the news release from lead sponsor Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)
Compare H.R. 676 to the ACA (and to the short-lived GOP “replacement” bill)
List of cosponsors of H.R. 676 in the current (115th) Congress
List of organizations and governmental bodies endorsing H.R. 676 and single payer
Activism on H.R. 676
Visit PNHP’s Get Active page
Call your representative.
Click here for a list of current cosposnors (to thank) and likely cosponsors (to contact).
Write a letter to your representative.
Click here to send an editable letter to your member of Congress.
Ask your representative to join the Medicare for All Caucus.
Click here to send an editable letter to your member of Congress.
Financing a single-payer national health program
Funding H.R. 676: Executive Summary
(Friedman, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; July 2013)
āLiberal Benefits, Conservative Spendingā
(Grumbach, et al., JAMA 265(19); May 15, 1991)
How Much Would a Single-Payer System Cost?
The Current and Projected Taxpayer Shares of U.S. Health Costs
(Himmelstein and Woolhandler, American Journal of Public Health, 2015)
A Comparison of Hospital Administrative Costs in Eight Nations
(Himmelstein et al., Health Affairs, Sept. 2014)
Transitioning to single-payer national health program
Beyond the Affordable Care Act: A Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform
(Working Group on Single-Payer Program Design, American Journal of Public Health 106(6); June 2016)
A National Long-term Care Program for the United States; A Caring Vision
(Working Group on Single-Payer Program Design, JAMA 266(21); December 4, 1991)
A Better-Quality Alternative: Single-Payer National Health System Reform
(Working Group on Single-Payer Program Design, JAMA 272(10); September 14, 1994)