H.R. 676

Here is something that got me excited to see, as Healthcare reform is a priotrity to me. I really believe that my family in the US deserves affordable, high quality healthcare. They deserve it. So do my former neighbors and friends in the US. I believe it is a right. The care of a good physician may have been relegated to the wealthy in the past, not any longer. Canada, Europe, China has socialized medicine. There is even legislation in place already to give Americans the same healthcare i enjoy here in Sweden. It is a bill in the house of representatives, and had ninety cosponsers the last time i checked, H.R. 676. http://www.congress.org/ams/issues/bills/?bill=9983991

Amazingly, physicians and nurses, business groups, unions, churches, they can all band together and agree on this! The entrenched interests that oppose it are the pharmaceutical companies, who are able to charge whatever they want when the government has given them free reign. The united states spends 20% of its GDP for Healthcare, Sweden, for example, spends a bit under 10%.

Funny thing i noticed this week when reading an article in Reuters, the top of the page has a caption, 'This story brought to you by Pfizer'

Makes you go Hmmm.

Check up more about groups that support single payer healthcare as is described in H.R. 676. There are many. Physicians for a Nastional Healthcare Plan is a group of over 15,000 doctors organized to offer their support, for example. https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/307/t/5720/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=3304

Here is another link about the issue http://www.pdamerica.org/leadership/