Krck *Em when they are down

Amazing that some want to kick around single payer healthcare after the sham health bill is law:

http://www.congress.org/news/2010/04/19/the_10_most_hopeless_bills?p=9




The 10 most hopeless bills
By Kristin Coyner

H.R. 676: United States National Health Care Act or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act of 2009

Sponsor: Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.)
Cosponsors: 87 Democratic representatives
Introduced: Jan. 26, 2009
Status: Jan. 26, 2009, read twice and referred to House Energy and Commerce, House Natural Resources and House Ways and Means committees

This bill is Conyers' fourth attempt at expanding Medicare for all citizens. In effect, the legislation would outlaw most forms of insurance.

The legislation would provide for free medical care for all Americans through the United States National Health Care Program and would prohibit any institution from providing care unless it were a government entity or nonprofit.

Conyers' co-sponsors represent the Democrats' liberal health care block. This wing was balanced with the moderate Blue Dogs as the overall health care package moved forward.

The bill would truly implement a single-payer system. And as an 87-member block would suggest, it's not just the Michigan lawmaker who wants the expansion: In 2005, the late-Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) proposed including all Americans in the federal program.

Liberal stalwarts such as George McGovern, the Democrat's 1972 presidential candidate, have also proposed such an expansion.

Aside from the obvious pushback from insurance companies, which would see their business dry up because the need for premiums would be bypassed, expanding Medicare for all is largely deemed unfeasible across the ideological spectrum.

Such a change would necessarily raise taxes and severely disrupt the health care delivery system.
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note: 676ers might be down, but we are not out!