Pennsylvania Legislature has 2 bills on health plan

If Congress fails to pass a federal single-payer program, a single-payer system could happen quickly in Pennsylvania, California and Illinois, Knoche said. The Canadian national health care system started in a single province and spread individually to all others.

Single-payer health care in several states could help move the national political will toward a national system, Knoche said.

The time has come for universal health care

The only realistic solution to our growing health care crisis is HR 676, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., which extends Medicare coverage to every American.

Over time, this bill, if enacted into law, would actually lower health care costs by at least 50 percent while insuring every American has health care when they need it.

This is essentially the way health care is done in every other country in the world except the United States.