National Call-in Day for Real Health Care Reform

Today, Thursday, 02/12/2009, is a National Call-in Day to express support for National Health Insurance legislation (HR 676).    Take a minute to call Congress and the President. 

On my own homefront, the state of New Hampshire is pushing the U.S. Congress and the president to nationalize health care.   See below for a copy of the state resolution (HCR 2) recently sent on to D.C. 

Here are the numbers for you to call today (be sure to specify HR 676 in your message):

Congressional switchboard: 202-225-3121

President's office:    

  Comments: 202-456-1111
  Switchboard: 202-456-1414

  email:  http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ 
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cc New Hampshire's Resolution:

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 2

A RESOLUTION endorsing the National Health Insurance Act.

SPONSORS: Rep. McEachern, Rock 16; Rep. Splaine, Rock 16

COMMITTEE: Commerce

ANALYSIS

This house concurrent resolution endorses the National Health Insurance Act.

09-0217

01/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine

A RESOLUTION endorsing the National Health Insurance Act.

Whereas, every person in New Hampshire and in the United States deserves access to affordable, quality health care; and

Whereas, there is a growing crisis in health care in the United States of America, manifested in rising health care costs, increased premiums, out-of-pocket spending, and decreased international business competitiveness; and

Whereas, approximately 135,000 New Hampshire citizens lacked health insurance in 2006; and

Whereas, those insured now often experience burdensome medical debt; and

Whereas, 1/2 of all personal bankruptcies are due to illnesses or medical bills; and

Whereas, the increasing expense of Medicaid and the rising costs of insuring state employees and teachers can best be met not by limiting benefits, but by expanding them under a national, publicly-funded health insurance program; and

Whereas, the complex bureaucracy arising from our fragmented, for-profit, multi-payer system of health care financing consumes approximately 30 percent of the United States health care spending while Medicare has a 3 percent overhead; and

Whereas, United States Representative John Conyers introduced HR 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act, in the United States House of Representatives for the 110th Congress; and

Whereas, this Act would provide a universal, comprehensive, single-payer system of high quality national health insurance; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the New Hampshire general court respectfully urges the United States Congress to enact the United States National Health Insurance Act sponsored by Representative Conyers; and

That copies of this resolution be transmitted by the house clerk to the President of the United States and to members of the New Hampshire congressional delegation.