HCR5: endorsing the National Health Insurance Act.

HCR 5 – AS INTRODUCED

2007 SESSION

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HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 5

A RESOLUTION endorsing the National Health Insurance Act.

SPONSORS: Rep. McEachern, Rock 16; Rep. Serlin, Rock 16; Rep. Splaine, Rock 16

COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

ANALYSIS

This house concurrent resolution endorses the National Health Insurance Act.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven

A RESOLUTION endorsing the National Health Insurance Act.

Whereas, every person in New Hampshire and in 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, and decreased international business competitiveness; and

Whereas, approximately 135,000 New Hampshire citizens lacked health insurance in 2006; and

Whereas, those insured now often experience burdensome medical debt; and

Whereas, 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 fragmented, for-profit, multi-payer system of health care financing consumes approximately 30 percent of the United States health care spending while Medicare has a 3 percent overhead; and

Whereas, United States Representative John Conyers has introduced HR 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act, in the United States House of Representatives for the 110th Congress; and

Whereas, this Act would provide a universal, comprehensive, single payer system of high quality national health insurance; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the New Hampshire general court respectfully urges the United States Congress to enact the United States National Health Insurance Act sponsored by Representative Conyers; and

That copies of this resolution be transmitted by the house clerk to the President of the United States and to members of the New Hampshire congressional delegation.