Conyers To Introduce Universal Healthcare Bill Today
Huffington Post- Ryan Grim
January 26, 2009 02:23 PM
John Conyers plans to introduce his universal healthcare legislation today, a Conyers aide tells the Huffington Post. The bill – known last session as H.R. 676 – is a favorite of healthcare reformers who back a single-payer system.
The bill, which will again be H.R. 676, is one of the more elegant to be introduced in the House, clocking in at just a few pages.
The plan is simple: everyone is eligible for a version of Medicare under a new U.S. National Health Insurance Program.
The program would effectively put private insurers out of business. What to do with all those employees? Hire them, says Conyers’ bill.
“The Program shall provide that clerical, administrative, and billing personnel in insurance companies, doctors offices, hospitals, nursing facilities, and other facilities whose jobs are eliminated due to reduced administration (1) should have first priority in retraining and job placement in the new system; and (2) shall be eligible to receive 2 years of unemployment benefits.”
Conyers, a Michigan Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, last introduced his bill, which garnered 93 cosponsors, in February 2007. It was referred to committee but never given a hearing.
If the 647-page House stimulus bill was too much to get through, try Conyers’ out.
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Very Interesting bill S-Q but you know the GOPers!
GOPers will want to fatten up that 3 page bill with a lot of pork to be sure.. Just so it fails to pass..
No wonder people complain that Govt doesn’t work. The Legislature can’t even decide if they should prosecute a known criminal ex-president and his treasonous ex-vp.
People are completely sick of all this bipartisan crap. If it doesn’t stop we will not proceed to recovery and our nation will fall into a hard depression.
Bush & Cheney would love that for sure because then they can hang over Obama’s administration with laughter.
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Obama is trying to make things work but the NeoCon idiots are trying to block his plans… Limbaugh said he hoped Obama failed… well, if Obama fails then the entire country falls apart! Limpballs is such a dumbass!
Yep! Limbaugh is a National traitor just like Bush & Cheney.
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