National Health Care System

Dear Senator Boxer,

I am writing you in support of a single payer health care system and John Conyers bill HR676.

A national health care system is an economic stimulus because it gets the cost of health care off the backs of both business and workers. Without the cost of health care on the backs of business and workers, business can lower the cost of goods and consumers will have more money to acquire consumable goods.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in the constitution that we are all entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Many people today, such as my wife and child, have no health insurance. How can you have life if there is no health care to make you better when you get sick?

Many other countries already have a national health care system that works well.

We spend more money on defense than all of the other countries combined and we don’t have a national health care plan. That’s an embarrassment and proves our national priorities are skewed in the wrong direction. We are more focused on killing people than on saving lives.

I paid taxes for more than 27 years when I was working and I was glad to do it. I believe U.S. citizens should have a say as to how tax dollars are spent. If I have a say, then I believe tax dollars should be spent on a national health care system.

A single payer health care system would stimulate the economy, provide insurance for those who have none today, bring the United States current with other countries, and contribute to the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, for all Americans.