Medicare for All Act
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| Long title | To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, and for other purposes. |
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| Acronyms (colloquial) | USNHI |
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The United States National Health Insurance Act also known as the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act and officially called HR 676, is a bill submitted to the United States House of Representatives by Representative John Conyers Jr., D-MI, along with 38 cosponsors, in 2003, and reintroduced each session. The act calls for the creation of a universal health care system in the United States, where the government would provide every resident health insurance free of charge. The bill is currently in the Subcommittee on Health and has 75 cosponsors. HR 15, with a similar title, National Health Insurance Act does not provide universal health care.
The bill has drawn significant attention beginning in July 2007 because of the release of the Michael Moore movie Sicko which focuses on the status of health care in the United States, which is the only developed country which does not have universal health care, along with South Africa. Historically universal health care is a relatively new development, spreading quickly in the last 50 years, from its beginning in the United Kingdom in 1948.