Please call your rep to support HB1660 & SB330 Healthcare for All

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http://www.healthcare4allpa.org/legis.htm

House bill HB1660 was introduced June 28. Senate bill SB300 was introduced in March. Both provide for comprehensive single payer health care coverage for all citizens of PA. HealthCare4AllPA and others are actively encouraging the process. We're working every day to move both bills towards ultimate passage.

Governor Ed Rendell is pulling out all the stops to ram through a health care bill (HB 2005) with the deceptive and dishonest label, “Cover all Pennsylvanians.” Even the governor's spokespeople admit his bill may only extend insurance coverage to 400,000 of Pennsylvania’s at least 1.4 million uninsured. It will do absolutely zero for Pennsylvania’s millions of underinsured. A better name for Rendell's HB 2005 is "No Insurance Company Left Behind."

Our governor recently managed to come up with partial funding for his program, which he hopes will help him finesse it past the legislature. E-mails going out today from surrogate groups are aimed at helping him pull it off.

Don’t be fooled. The Family and Business Healthcare Security Act (SB 300 and HB 1660) is the only bill that will bring comprehensive, affordable health care to every man, woman and child in Pennsylvania. We need to act now if we are to pass single-payer health care in Pennsylvania. The Rendell plan will leave the corrupt and greedy for-profit insurance companies in charge while leaving millions on Pennsylvanians uninsured or underinsured.