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Aliquippa, PA Chapter 20-20 of the Steelworker Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) has endorsed HR 676 a bill that would legislate Single Payer health care in the U.S. The chapter made its endorsement January 12th at its regular monthly meeting.
Many of the chapters 1,272 members have fathers and grandfathers who worked and organized the giant Jones & Laughlin steel mill into SWOC, the steelworkers organizing committee, in the 1930's. When J & L refused to recognize the union, which later became local 1211 of the USWA, the case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and became the lead case which established the legality of the Wagner Act.
HR 676 now has 62 congressional co-sponsors in addition to John Conyers Jr. (D-MI). It would institute a single payer health care system in the U.S. by expanding a greatly improved Medicare system to every resident..
HR 676 would cover every person in the U. S. for all necessary medical care including prescription drugs, hospital, surgical, outpatient services, primary and preventive care, emergency services, dental, mental health, home health, physical therapy, rehabilitation (including for substance abuse), vision care, chiropractic and long term care. HR 676 ends deductibles and co-payments. HR 676 would save billions annually by eliminating high overhead and profits of the private health insurance industry and HMOs.
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STEELWORKERS ORG. OF ACTIVE RETIREES
