United for National Health Care
ufhc.org | 2008 | Bellingham,WA| NP/NP

  All babies, all children, all parents, all grandparents and great-grandparents.  All farmers and miners and oilfield workers, all teenagers, all bankers and teachers, film-makers, people of all faiths and colors, all lawyers, salesmen and women, doctors and restaurant workers, stockbrokers and poets, dancers, teachers, musicians, actors -- and all of their families.  Everybody!  The unemployed and the chronically ill will all get the healthcare they need. And there will be no such thing as a pre-existing condition in the United States.  Just healthcare for everybody. 

EVERYBODY IN; NOBODY OUT!
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Call Rep.Rick Larsen (D-WA 2nd),tell him you support HR676 and need his. Sign on as a co-sponsor! Represent the health and welfare of his district and not just corperate interest! 1-800-562-1385 (ask for Rep.Larsen)

Contact Len Surdi to get yours now! Makes a great gift ,Too!

A donation to UNHC of $15 for a S,M,L,XL "Tee"/ A donation of $18 for a XXL,XXXL

Articles of Interest; 

Nation's Mayors endorse HR676- Resolution adopted by U.S.Conference of Mayors calling on Congress to enact HR676.

N.Y. State Assembly points the way forward on HR 676-Andrew D. Coates, MD Poughkeepsie Journal

Senate Finance summit missed the message-Harvey Fernbach

Why the Massachusetts reform is not a model for WA nor the nation-By Sharon K. Long, principal research associate at the Urban Institute and comment by PNHP's Don McCanne, MD

DNR the insurance industry-Dr. John P. Geyman,MD,professor emeritus of family medicine at the University of Washington. He is past president of Physicians for a National Health Program and author of  a new must read book"Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry Is Dying, and How We Must Replace It", will soon be available. "Even though delivery will not be until this summer, I emphatically recommend that you order it now while you are thinking about it. At least, check out the website at this link: Common Courage Press" - Don McCanne, MD

WA's cost to exceed 10 percent of pay for 1.3 million people-Les Blumenthal,Bellingham herald

NHI  best way to ensure care for all Americans-By DAVID MCLANAHAN and DONALD MITCHELL-Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Pushing the Single-Payer Solution-By Amy Goodman

Side-by-Side Comparison of the Candidates' Positions on Health Care-Kaiser Family Foundation

UHC Proposals Forum-Great Power Point Presentation by NY Chapter PNHP/Leonard Rodberg-Queens College

WA's are Dying for Coverage!

"In 2006, there were nearly 3,505,000 people between the ages of 25 and 64 living in Washington. Of those, 14.6 percent were uninsured. Uninsured Washingtonians are sicker and die sooner than their insured counterparts.

Working-Age People without Health Insurance Die Sooner: Families USA estimates that one working-age Washingtonian dies each day due to lack of health insurance (approximately 380 people in 2006). Between 2000 and 2006, the estimated number of adults between the ages of 25 and 64 in Washington who died because they did not have health insurance was nearly 2,700."- From the Families USA March 2008 study.

“It's tragic that far too many Washingtonians die before their time because they don't have access to affordable and quality health care,” U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) said today. “As the number of the nation's uninsured and underinsured continues to increase, there is so much more that can be done to stem the tide, and the time to act is now. All Americans deserve access to quality, affordable health care.”- Mar.2008

“This report confirms in stark terms that America's health care crisis is a matter of life and death for the American people,” U.S. Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA) said today. “As long as Washington, D.C. continues to ignore the urgent need to implement universal health care, more Americans will be deprived of the medical care they deserve, and more innocent lives will be lost for no reason other than intransigence, which is no reason at all.”-Mar.2008

Dr. Rocky White M.D. a physician from a conservative, evangelical background who practices in rural Alamosa, Colo.: "“I think that our current presidential candidates understand that ideally single-payer would be the best, but they don’t have the political will to move that forward. Their job is to feel which way the wind is blowing. Our job is to turn that wind.” From Amy Goodman's article, Pushing the Single-Payer Solution.

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Links of Interest.....

Healthcare-NOW  /  PNHP-CA  / PNHP Western Washington  / Sicko Cure ( Lots of great resources!)

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