Reply #36: Kucinich and conyers have already introduced the legislation [View All]

All they have to do is reintroduce it next session and we put the pressure on Nancy Pelosi. The ridiculous costs of healthcare affect everyone in this country, this might be the single most important issue for every American,even more important that raising the minimum wage, because free healthcare would reduce everyone's monthy expenses.

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And so what I’ve advocated with John Conyers is HR 676: universal single-payer not-for-profit healthcare, which provides that everyone’s covered for everything. And we’re already paying for a universal standard of care—we’re just not getting it because—if you took that almost $500 billion a year and put it into healthcare in the form of a universal system, we would have enough money for all basic medical care, plus dental care, vision care, mental healthcare, long-term care, prescription drugs and even broader coverage. We’re already paying for this. We’re not getting it. We need to have the end of healthcare for profit in the United States and the beginning of a healthcare system which helps those who don’t work or can’t work, which helps workers, small businesses, manufacturers. This could be—this single move towards healthcare for all can bring about a dramatic shift in the American economy and in the lives of every man, woman and child in the United States.

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