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From OpEd News, Dennis Kucinich launches his new "Healthcare as Civil Right" movement, extolling the virtues of Congressman John Conyers' bill, House of Representative Bill # 676:
There is only one true health care public option: Single payer. It covers everyone, all basic health care needs, with doctor of choice. No more premiums, co-pays or deductibles. All health care assets in America would become not-for-profit. The bill already exists. It is HR 676. Congressman John Conyers and I wrote the bill. Our bill has the support of 85 co-sponsors in the House. And it is backed by a growing national movement of labor, doctors, and nurses. The movement needs you. Please join me for tomorrow's national conference call at 10:00pm EDT. Please call toll-free 1-800-230-1096.
The hour has arrived to begin anew the Civil Rights Movement, this time for Health Care for All. I am calling upon you to become a force in this movement. Go to Health Care as A Civil Right at Kucinich.us to learn how you can circulate a single-payer petition and organize in your community. Please help fund this effort. Go to Kucinich.us now, contribute.
smkovalinsky
New York, New York, United States
Rory Cripps
New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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Clearlake, California, United States
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at 08:12 on September 9th, 2009
Single payer universal health care is the best option, and I have long supported HR 676 as the best option. I strongly believe that health care for all is right and humane. Health care for profit is not. The media is replete with stories of deaths from lack of early interventions because of lack of insurance coverage, deaths as a result of the inability to pay for life saving medicines and procedures, insurance company provisions that top out and individuals with catastropic illness are left to die.
The insurance companies have decided who will live and who will die. What does it take for people to understand?