Let States Create Single-Payer Healthcare

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From: "RootsAction Team" <info@rootsaction.org>
Date: May 30, 2012 10:06 AM
Subject: Let States Create Single-Payer Healthcare
To: <aquarianm@gmail.com>

A new bill would allow states to set up single-payer. Ask your Rep. to cosponsor. Share this action on Facebook Share this action on Twitter Dear Catherine, Canadians got universal, nonprofit health insurance one province at a time.  Several U.S. states are trying.  But the 2010 healthcare bill protected insurance company profits by making it harder for states to act. Rep. Jim McDermott is drafting legislation that would allow states to provide their people with universal health coverage and save money -- by cutting private insurance companies and their profits and bureaucracy out of the picture. (McDermott is a medical doctor.) Ask your Representative to be an original cosponsor. The "State-Based Universal Healthcare Act" would do more to cut costs and expand health coverage in the United States than any federal health reforms likely to be passed or repealed by Congress or the Supreme Court. States should have the right, if they choose, to provide their residents with the same basic health coverage that the world's other wealthy nations enjoy – free from the federal requirement to enrich insurance executives in the process. Ask your Representative to back this bill and to urge his or her colleagues to do the same. Please forward this email to anyone who might agree that the wealthiest nation on earth should rank higher than 38th in life expectancy. Onward, The RootsAction team P.S. Our small staff is supported by contributions from people like you; your donations are greatly appreciated. P.P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, and many others. Resource Los Angeles Times: Legislation May Enable States to Offer Universal Healthcare Click here to unsubscribe and stop ALL email from RootsAction. To modify your email communication preferences or update your personal profile, visit your subscription management page at: http://hq-salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/profile/