LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION urging the New York State Congressional deleg-
ation to enact H.R. 676, the United States National Health Care Act

WHEREAS, Every person in New York State and in all the United States
deserves access to affordable, quality health care; and
WHEREAS, There is a growing crisis in health care in the United States
of America, manifested in rising health care costs, increased premiums,
out-of-pocket spending, decreased international business competitive-
ness, and massive layoffs; and
WHEREAS, As of May of 2009, approximately 2.6 million New Yorkers lack
health insurance; and
WHEREAS, Those uninsured now often experience unacceptable medical
debt and sometimes life-threatening delays in obtaining health care; and
WHEREAS, One-half of all personal bankruptcies are due to illnesses or
medical bills; and
WHEREAS, The increasing expense of Medicaid and the rising costs of
insuring state employees and teachers can best be met not by limiting
benefits, but by expanding them under a national, publicly-funded health
insurance program; and
WHEREAS, The complex bureaucracy arising from our system of frag-
mented, for-profit, multi-payer system of health care financing consumes
approximately 30 percent of the United States' healthcare spending; and
WHEREAS, United States Representatives John Conyers, Yvette D. Clarke,
Eliot L. Engel, Maurice D. Hinchey, Carolyn B. Maloney, Eric J.J. Massa,
Gregory W. Meeks, Jerrold Nadler, Paul D. Tonko, Edolphus Towns and
Nydia M. Velazquez have introduced H.R. 676, the United States National
Health Care Act, in the United States House of Representatives for the
111th Congress, this Act would provide a universal, comprehensive,
single payer system of high quality national health insurance; and
WHEREAS, Passage of H.R. 676 would save New York State citizens, busi-
nesses and governmental bodies at least ten billion dollars
($10,000,000,000) annually in health care costs; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the New York State Congressional delegation be and
hereby is respectfully memorialized by this Legislative Body to enact
H.R. 676, the United States National Health Care Act; and be it further
RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be tran-
smitted to each member of the Congressional delegation from the State of
New York.