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 (Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, H.R. 676) is a bill submitted to the United States House of Representatives by Representative John Conyers Jr., D-MI, which as of October 9, 2007 has 85 cosponsors. It was first introduced, with 25 cosponsors, in 2003,[1] and reintroduced each session. The act calls for the creation of a universal single-payer health care system in the United States, in which the government would provide every resident health insurance free of charge. The bill is currently in the Subcommittee on Health. H.R. 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.[2][3][4] Historically universal health care is a relatively new development, spreading quickly in the last 50 years, from its beginnings in New Zealand in 1938 and the United Kingdom in 1948.[5]
References
- ^ H.R. 676
- ^ American Health Care Reform.org
- ^ Towards Universal Health Care
- ^ Universal Health Plan is Endorsed The Boston Globe August 13, 2003
- ^ The World Health Report 2000, World Health Organization, June 2000
External links
- H.R. 676 – Information on the act from the Library of Congress Database