United States National Health Insurance Act

The United States National Health Insurance Act (Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act) (H.R. 676), is a bill submitted to the United States House of Representatives by Representative John Conyers Jr., D-MI, which as of March 19, 2009 has 69 recorded cosponsors. It was first introduced, with 25 cosponsors, in 2003,^[1] and reintroduced each session since then. The act calls for the creation of a universal single-payer health care system in the United States, in which the government would provide every resident health care free of charge. In order to eliminate disparate treatment between richer and poorer Americans, the Act would also prohibit private insurers from covering any treatment or procedure already covered by the Act. The bill is currently in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, as well as the Committees on Ways and Means, and Natural Resources. John Dingell (D-MI), former chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, has each session introduced a bill with a similar title ("National Health Insurance Act") H.R. 15, which was first introduced in 1933 by his father, John Dingell, but which does not provide for universal health care.

H.R. 676 has drawn significant attention beginning in July 2007 because of the release of the Michael Moore documentary Sicko which focuses on the status of health care in the United States, which is the only developed country which does not have universal health care.^[2][3] The DVD edition of the film also included a segment (Sicko Goes To Washington) promoting the bill