People in all states can help PA get single payer health care

[eridani]

I'm writing to you because I know you care about REAL healthcare reform. This is an urgent appeal from all of us at Healthcare for All Pennsylvania – a grassroots group that some thought would disappear with the passage of the national healthcare bill.

Well, we are not going away, because all Pennsylvanians, and all Americans, deserve a proven solution – a Single Payer solution – and we can do it in 2010 if YOU and ALL who have said they support Single Payer Healthcare decide to make it happen!

Are you satisfied with what you hear about the National Healthcare bill, HR 3590? Though we marvel with you over the political feat of passing ANY healthcare bill in Washington DC, we must also be honest about the policy shortcomings, and why Pennsylvania' s single payer legislation is more crucial, more time-sensitive, and more imminent than ever.

Right now passage of Single Payer Healthcare for PA is closer than many thought possible. While several states are also working hard to bring REAL UNIVERSAL CARE with no premiums and no restrictions, only PA has ALL these pieces ready to go:

Bipartisan support in both the PA House and Senate for The Family & Business Healthcare Security Act (SB 400 and HB 1660)<1>;
A funding mechanism built directly into the framework of the legislation< 2>;
The Governor's word that he would sign this bill if it came to his desk<3>;
A majority of PA Senate co-sponsors --Republican and Democrat-- for an Economic Impact Study to verify the cost savings of the single payer legislation< 4>.

Will you make a contribution of $25 to help real healthcare reform succeed in Pennsylvania?
http://www.healthcare4allpa.org/donate.htm

What we need now are the resources for a final push from citizen activists and their representatives in Harrisburg to pass Senate Resolution 267, complete the study, and then make our bill a model for the nation.

HealthCare4ALLPA needs to raise at least $50,000 – 2,000 gifts of $25 – to meet immediate challenges. Will you contribute $25 today as we pull out all the stops to get this done once and for all? With a single click you can make a difference. Your generous contribution will be put to work immediately to help bring the single payer solution to Pennsylvania, and to provide a sustainable state-based model for true national reform.

[ultracase24]

1. K and R

[eridani]

2. Kick for the Tuesday afternoon crowd

:kick:

[Jim Lane]

3. How would the proposed system handle pre-existing conditions?

I've always thought that single-payer in one state posed real problems, because uninsured people from other states who begin to need expensive care would move to the state that would provide that care at public expense. This would skew the risk pool in a way greatly disadvantageous to the state that adopted single payer. Can you give us a summary of how Pennsylvania would avert or address this problem?

[eridani]

4. Strict residency requirements take care of that.

Plus, there is an anticipated domino effect as happened in Canada after Saskatchewan indroduced single payer.