Conyers Reintroduces National Single-Payer Health Care Bill

(WASHINGTON) – Today, Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) reintroduced H.R. 676, “The Expanded And Improved Medicare For All Act.”  This bill would establish a privately-delivered, publicly-financed universal health care system, where physicians and non-profit health care providers would be in charge of medical decisions -- not insurance companies. H.R. 676 would expand and improve the highly popular Medicare program and provide universal access to care to all Americans.  The program would be primarily funded by a modest payroll tax on employers and employees, a financial transaction tax, and higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

H.R.676 has been introduced in Congress since 2003, and has a broad base of support among universal health care activists, organized labor, physicians, nurses, and social justice organizations across the nation. The bill has been endorsed by 26 international unions, Physicians For A National Health Program, two former editors of the New England Journal of Medicine, National Nurses United, the American Medical Students Association, Progressive Democrats of America, and the NAACP. Last Congress, 77 other Members in the House of Representatives signed on as cosponsors of the legislation. In 2011, the Vermont legislature passed legislation that lays the foundation for a single-payer health care system in the state.

Representative Conyers issued this statement following the release of the bill:

U.S. Representative
John Conyers, Jr.

“I am pleased to announce the reintroduction of H.R. 676, ‘The Expanded And Improved Medicare For All Act,’ in the 113^th Congress. I have introduced the bill in each Congress since 2003 and I will continue to do so until the bill is passed,” said Conyers.

“Many Americans are frustrated with high out-of-pocket costs, skyrocketing premiums, and many other serious problems that are part and parcel of a health care system dependent on private health insurance plans.  H.R. 676 would reform this broken system.

“Passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was an important initial reform, which will provide health insurance to millions of our nation’s uninsured and eliminate many of the worst practices of the private health insurance industry.

“However, it is my opinion, and the belief of many leading health care practitioners and experts, that establishing a non-profit universal single-payer health care system would be the best way to effectively contain health care costs and provide quality care for all Americans. It is time for Members of Congress, health policy scholars, economists, and the medical community to begin a serious discussion of the merits of a universal single-payer health care system.”

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Single Payer Health Care Fraud Prevention Powerpoint and Speaker Notes

Single Payer Health Care Fraud Prevention Powerpoint.  This is the next phase in implementation of the National Health Care Act

A Roadmap for New Physicians: Avoiding Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Powerpoint
A Roadmap for New Physicians: Avoiding Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse: Speaker Notes

Feds Sentence Novartis For Drugging Kids

Trileptal is a common drug that was readily prescribed to foster children and other low income children for false claims and false diagnoses.  Novartis paid off doctors to ghostwrite reports to drug kids.

Children in foster care are still being prescribed Trileptal as mood stabilizers and not was it was approved for.  Someone needs to ask Maura Corrigan about this.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Sentenced For Off-Label Drug Marketing

DOJ Makes Novartis Pay $420 Million For Kiddy Kickback Scheme

I cringe when I see the growing list of pharmaceutical corporations that not only drugged kids for cash, but drugged the entire industry of child welfare to believe that it was a good thing for kids.

When you look at the national statistics, you will see a category labeled as " physical neglect".  Physical neglect has 12 codes assigned to break down the different categories for purposes of research studies.
There are two specific codes which address issues of medical neglect:

1. Refusal to allow or provide needed care for diagnosed condition or impairment.
2. Unwarranted delay or failure to seek needed care

TRANSLATION: When a parent refuses psychotropic medication to the child, this constitutes medical neglect, a reportable condition to increase the national statistics of child abuse and neglect, and grounds for removal.

This is a classic Title IV-E funding training technique (usually billing at the improper higher rate of 75%) where a Child Welfare Worker will use the tactic of performing an Axis III diagnosis, without medical license, to support the placement of the child in foster care and to automatically classify the child as special needs, accessing Targeted Case Management funding benefits called kiddy kickbacks.

Novartis resolves its own kiddy kickback liabilities, generated from Social Securitydollars while the States child welfare systems continue its pattern of practice of promoting the drugging of children.

Trileptal is a commonly prescribed as a psychotropic drug for foster children.

Wolverine Human Services of Michigan uses this drug liberally with foster children.

Here are two physicians who participated in the illegal and wrongful marketing of Trileptal.

Demitri and Janice Papolos

Trileptal Illegal Marketing Material