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  2. Created By
    Keith Rouda
    Louisville, KY
About this Petition Petition Letter

President Obama told the nation to tell him if they had a better idea for healthcare reform.  That better idea is the single-payer "Medicare for All" system that his administration summarily rejected before the nation even got to debate it.

Current healthcare reform proposals may save $150 billion over ten years.  Compared to the many trillions of dollars the nation will spend on healthcare over those ten years, $150 billion is barely even a rounding error.  And some slight of hand in the estimates suggest even these savings will never materialize.

Some organizations estimate that a "Medicare for All" type single-payer system could provide high quality health care for each and every American while saving hundreds of billions of dollars each and every year!

Maybe it would, maybe it wouldn't.  But we'll never know unless the Congressional Budget Office "scores" one of the single-payer bills to find out how it compares.  So far the House and the Senate have both refused to insist that CBO do this scoring.  Which is why we are insisting now.

Join this effort to tell President Obama and the Congress to have the CBO score HR 676 and make the results public immediately.

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Make the CBO Score HR 676 or HR 3590 - Single Payer "Medicare for All" Healthcare Bills

Greetings,

Some organizations estimate that a single-payer, "Medicare for All" healthcare system covering ALL Americans would SAVE taxpayers HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars EACH YEAR over the plans in Congress that still leave millions of Americans with no insurance.

American citizens have a right to know and our elected leaders have a moral responsibility to find out.

That's why I implore you to make the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] "score" HR 676, the single-payer healthcare bill and make the results public immediately... before the President signs any other healthcare legislation.

Sincerely,

[Your name]

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