Family and Business Healthcare Security Act of 2007

This is from Chuck Pennacchio, Executive Director of Healthcare4AllPA.org:

1.4 million Pennsylvanians have no health insurance. Millions more are underinsured. Untold thousands more think they have good coverage until the corporate-run insurance company rejects their claim based on technicalities, "pre-existing" conditions—or denies life-saving procedures arbitrarily defined as "experimental."

We are left with a system that delivers reduced preventive care; delayed treatment; difficulty seeing specialists; costly co-pays & deductibles, and caps on treatment costs.

  Single-payer universal healthcare replaces the "Medical-Industrial-Complex" of corrupt insurance companies and their allies with a simple plan using existing State and Federal funds, a 3% earnings tax and a 10% business payroll tax (a huge savings for most individuals and employers).  The outcome would be an improved Medicare-For-All system of publicy-funded, priavtely-provided universal healthcare.

Once Pennsylvania demonstrates to the nation what 87 countries have already discovered, single-payer universal healthcare will become national policy along the lines of Congressman John Conyers' HR 676. Congressman Conyers made this point precisely when he came to Pennsylvania in April to endorse the "Family and Business Healthcare Security Act."

Over 100 Pennsylvania State Legislators have had discussions with Health Care for All Pennsylvania, and nearly half of them

have signed up as co-sponsors. 

As the only statewide single-payer campaign in the nation with bills before the House and the Senate, as well as the commitment of our Governor to sign the legislation upon reaching his desk, Pennsylvania is stands to lead the nation out of this crisis, much as we did in 1776. 

Consider:

• Administrative costs for greedy insurance companies exceed 30% of the cost of healthcare compared to just 3% for Medicare. (This step would save Pennsylvania taxpayers 6-7 billion dollars.)

• The U.S. already spends double what most industrialized

countries spend per person on healthcare.

• 18,000 Americans die annually from being uninsured.

• Thousands of the insured die from services denied or

delayed by insurance companies.

• Life expectancy in the U.S. is among the shortest in the

industrialized world.

• Infant mortality rate in the U.S. is among the highest in the industrialized world. Only Latvia is worse.

• We pay far more per person than any other country.

• Approximately 50% of personal bankruptcies in the U.S.

stem from medical bills.

#1 Visit our website at http://healthcare4allpa.org to learn more and to educate others.

#2 Lobby your State Legislators using the talking points below.  Find your representative at: http://healthcare4allpa.org/legislators.htm

#3 Write letters to the editor, using the talking points below.

#4 Donate $10, $25, $50 – whatever you can – to our volunteer, citizen-centered education and lobbying effort: http://healthcare4allpa.org/donate.htm

#5 Circulate a petition and return it to us:

http://healthcare4allpa.org/documents/petition_s.pdf