H.R. 676 Summary
United States House of Representatives Bill Number 676 is the proposed U.S. legislation to establish improved Medicare for All, universal health care, in the United States. It will establish lifelong health care: "cradle to grave", "womb to tomb". The coverage will be complete; some people like to call that “comprehensive.”
Every other free-market country ** in the world automatically provides health care for its people with a largely or exclusively non-profit method of financing the health care. Even the two free-market countries that are considered to be "low income", Mexico and Turkey, have been implementing universal health care.
The best non-profit method has 1 fund and 1 plan and 1 payer (“single-payer”) because it is the simplest and most efficient. The specific funding details need to be established, such as the method(s) proposed in H.R. 676.
What matters is not so much how we pay for it, since the costs will be dramatically lower, but what we will pay for:
— We will no longer be paying for a system that wastes $400 billion in excessive administrative costs.
— Much more of our health care dollars will be spent on health care.
— More of the doctors and nurses time will be spent on caring for people.
— The result will be more time spent on prevention and wellness and the U.S. dramatically raising its life expectancy, which is 31st according to the World Health Organization and 42nd according to the CIA Factbook, which monitors all the countries of the world.