HealthCareNOW on the ruling of the ACA

The Supreme Court just released their decision on Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA), and their decision is that all components of the law - including the individual mandate requiring citizens buy private health insurance - are upheld and declared constitutional. This decision does not end the fight for expanded and improved Medicare-for-all. We know that our community members' health needs will not be met by the ACA. We already have the infrastructure in place to create a national single-payer system by simply expanding Medicare to everyone, and excluding private health insurance companies. We urge you to: 1. Send emails, and then calls, to your Congress members and the President; 2. Write letters to the editors of your local newspapers explaining why we still need a universal publicly-financed healthcare system; 3. Hold public demonstrations outside of private health insurance companies or hospitals. Or attend one of these: - Washington, DC - Today - Albany, Rochester, Ithaca, New York City (PNHP) - Today - Memphis, TN - Today - New York City, NY (OWS) - Today at 11:30am and Friday, June 29 at 5pm - Louisville, KY - Friday, June 29 at 4pm The ACA: - Will not achieve universal coverage--at least 26 million people will remain uninsured. - Will not control healthcare costs, leaving Americans vulnerable to bankruptcy. - Embeds private, for-profit insurance in the system's core, allowing them to continue to profit and game the system at our health's expense. While a national single-payer system, such as the one proposed in Representative Conyers' (D-MI) National Health Care Act (HR676), would: - Cover all necessary medical care for everyone living in the US from birth to death. - Reduce healthcare spending by a minimum of $400 billion a year by significantly reducing administrative costs. - Remove for-profit insurers from the system along with their excessive profits and CEO salaries. Please take swift action now with the message: Medicare: improve it and expand it to everyone! In solidarity for single-payer, Healthcare-NOW! National Staff and Steering Committee P.S. Michael Moore will be in Philadelphia, PA this Saturday. Hear what he, the folks featured in SiCKO, and Wendell Potter think about the decision.
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