National LCLAA 2008 Membership Convention

6. Resolution Strongly Urging For National Health Insurance for All and for Passage of HR 676

Whereas, According to the National Coalition on Heath Care, approximately 47 million Americans are without

health insurance--15 million are Hispanic, and 9 million children uninsured in the United States; and

Whereas, Health insurance costs and the number people without health insurance continues to rise in the

United States; and

Whereas, According to the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust,

premiums for employee-sponsored health insurance in the United State have been rising five times faster on

average than workers' salaries; and

Whereas, Latino families are having an increasingly harder time making ends meet, and, according to the U.S.

Census Bureau, 37 million live at or below poverty level; and

Whereas, According to a recent study by Harvard University researchers, 50 percent of all bankruptcy filings

were partly the result of overwhelming medical expenses; and

Whereas, According to the National Coalition on Heath Care's Facts on Health Care Costs, national health care

spending is 4.3 times the amount spent on national defense; and

Whereas, Latinos for National Health Insurance and Physicians for a National Health Program report that under

a H.R. 676, the Medicare for All Plan, the country could save over $286 billion a year in health care costs; and

Whereas, In addition to helping workers, a national health insurance could reduce the average cost paid by

employers for employee benefits; and

Whereas, The benefits from universal health coverage could include extending the life of untold numbers of

Latinos and African Americans who, without health insurance, have higher mortality rates and worst health

outcomes, according to the National Coalition on Health Care; and

Whereas, National health insurance could benefit all people living in the United

States, regardless of

immigration status;

Therefore Be it Resolved, That the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement calls upon the United

States Congress to pass H.R. 676, The United States National Health Insurance Act, which would provide

national universal insurance to every person living in these United States.

Respectfully submitted by:

New York City LCLAA Chapter

Albany/Capital District Chapter

REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE: CIVIL and HUMAN RIGHTS

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