U.S. Conference of Mayors Backs Single-Payer National Health Insurance

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U.S. Conference of Mayors Backs Single-Payer National Health Insurance
June 28, 2008, Miami, FL

June 23, 2008--The U.S. Conference of Mayors, meeting in Miami, adopted a resolution, in support of single-payer national health insurance. The assembly, in unanimous vote, backed a resolution calling for the enactment of the “United States National Health Insurance Act,” H.R. 676. The bill, which is also known as the “Improved and Expanded Medicare for All Act,” is sponsored by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan and 90 other members of Congress.

“This is a major achievement, a qualitative change in the movement for genuine health care reform,” said Dr. David Prensky, a retired dentist from Palm Beach, Florida, who helped promote the resolution. Prensky is a member of the Chicago-based Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP). “It shows that our country's mayors now support the kind of approach that every other industrialized country has--an approach that guarantees health care for everyone at an affordable cost,” he said.

“Mayors, in a very real sense, are closer to the people than most elected officials,” Prensky continued. “They are closer to the grassroots, where their communities and constituents are suffering. Meanwhile their city budgets are being shattered by health costs for their own employees.”

Conyers' bill would guarantee everyone care for all medically necessary services, contain costs by slashing the administrative waste and bureaucracy associated with the private insurance industry and assure patients their choice of doctor and hospital.

http://www.pdamerica.org/articles/news/2008-06-28-09-39-23-news.php

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[Phred42]

1. Good on teh Mayors! K&R

[John Q. Citizen]

2. This is a very good thing. I hope Obama is watching

[slipslidingaway]

3. Thanks for the good news n/t