2313 	BRESLIN CO: ADDABBO, DIAZ, DUANE, ESPADA, HASSELL-THOMPSON, 
ONORATO, SCHNEIDERMAN, STAVISKY, THOMPSON

 Urging the New York State Congressional delegation to enact H.R. 676

 
 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.