Healthcare-NOW is a national campaign for a quality guaranteed non-profit single payer healthcare system in the United States.

 

WE CAN AFFORD IT.  We are challenging the myth that we cannot afford a national healthcare system in this country. We know that statement is not true. Every other advanced nation has universal healthcare. We are rated number 37 in the world among nations -- many of whom have much fewer resources than we do.

 

WE ARE PAYING ALMOST TWICE AS MUCH PER CAPITA as the closest other nation in the world. Yet, many of those countries are rated higher by the World Health Organization. 41 countries have better infant mortality rates than the United States including South Korea, Cyprus, and Slovenia.

WE REPRESENT MORE THAN 70% of the POPULATION We are business people, labor unions, people of all faiths, doctors, nurses, students, workers, and above all, families who seek to have the great healthcare system that we are already paying for. 

 

WE WANT A BETTER CLIMATE FOR OUR BUSINESS ECONOMY Many other countries are rated as better places to do business because of their "seamless healthcare systems" including Finland and New Zealand. We are already spending enough money for a national healthcare system that would cover everybody for much better benefits, but we are not getting better healthcare and almost 50 million of us have no benefits at all.

HEALTHCARE NOW IS ACTIVE IN MORE THAN 300 CITIES IN ALMOST EVERY STATE. Come join us. Send us an e-mail and become a part of the campaign. info@healthcare-now.org

 

AS WINSTON CHURCHILL SAID, "The Americans can be counted on to do the right thing, after they have tried everything else."  Now is the time to abandon all of those failed policies and go to single payer.

 

WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED. Ms. Fannie Lou Hamer shouted these fighting words in 1965 at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. She fought on until the Voting Rights Act was passed. We want to do the same thing with health care as a human right. Healthcare is the new civil rights/ human rights movement. Become a member. Join us!

 

MANY PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE WE CAN GET A NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THIS COUNTRY. We have been brainwashed -- convinced that we need insurance companies to handle the money and pay the bills for healthcare rather than a single payer system that would eliminate those tremendous extra costs for multiple administration, lobbying, advertising and ceo profits. Many people think it would cost more money to provide healthcare for all, but that is not true. Not if we cut out the unconscionable profits raked off by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. It is a matter of political will.

 

ANOTHER MYTH -- THAT A GOVERNMENT FUNDED PROGRAM WOULD NOT BE AS GOOD AS A PRIVATE FOR-PROFIT PROGRAM although we have abundant evidence that this is not true. Look at the Bush Prescription Drug Program (Part D). It is a bureaucratic and costly fiasco that provides huge profits for the pharmaceutical companies and forbids people the freedom to get their necessary medications directly from Medicare. The Veterans Administration, a government program proven to be superior to other hospitals, provides drugs at a fraction of the cost through economies of scale and negotiations ­ good business practices. Why not do the same for the rest of us under an improved regular Medicare drug program where prices would be negotiated on the basis of a huge pool of participants, all 300 million of us?

 

THE GOOD NEWS ­ We can end the long waiting lines for healthcare in the U.S. Almost 50 million of us have no coverage; another 50 million are partially covered, paying huge deductibles and co-pays, getting denials from the insurance company, or living in fear that their employer will drop them, raise the co-pays, or cancel their insurance.

 

WE CAN HAVE MUCH MORE FREEDOM OF CHOICE of doctors and medical procedures.

 

YOU CAN HELP -- You will be healthier and wealthier. We will all be healthier and wealthier, if we can change this healthcare system ­ the sooner the better. We must inform more and more people about this possibility and how to succeed. YOU CAN HELP. Go to Take Action for a national healthcare system for all NOW.

 

CAN WE DO THIS? Of course we can. IT'S UP TO YOU!