ARTICLES/FACTS OF INTEREST

• Why Are Drugs Prices So High?
   

• The Failing Employer-Based Insurance System
   

• The Gottfried Bill Creating a Healthcare Commission:
  Over 250 diverse organizations from across New York [including the Professional Staff Congress] applauded the introduction of The Legislative Commission on Health Care Coverage Act of 2005 (A.6575) by [New York State] Assembly Health Committee chair Richard Gottfried. The Commission proposal is already co-sponsored by some forty members of the Assembly. It would establish a joint Senate-Assembly bipartisan panel to, over a two-year period, look at ways to expand quality health care coverage to all New York residents. The groups are seeking $500,000 in the State Budget to fund the Commission’s work.
  --From a press release from the NYS Hunger Action Network http://www.hungeractionnys.org/release_305.htm

--Click here for text of the Gottfried Bill

--Click here for a summary of the Gottfried Bill

• Campaign For a National Health Program Now
  Americans are DYING for health care.  People in 70 cities and states are planning the first ever Citizen/Congressional Hearings called by citizens themselves. They want their Representatives in Congress to attend these hearings and hear their views on the failures of the profit-based health care system and to respond to solutions that would provide comprehensive health care for everybody. Click here for more information.

   

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