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SF: NEWSOM SIGNS RESOLUTION ENDORSING UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE BILL

Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signed a resolution this morning in support of legislation that would establish a nationwide universal health insurance program.

HR 676, dubbed the United States National Health Insurance Act, was introduced by U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., in 2003. The bill strives to create single-payer health insurance program that would be publicly financed and privately delivered, improving the Medicare program.

Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who authored the resolution that urges the U.S. House of Representatives to begin hearings on HR 676, said at today's event, "The American people have been squeezed.''

Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Association, attended the news conference along with several members of the CNA.

"The nurses are leading this movement across the country,'' she said.

CNA representatives, families of those who have lost loved ones who were without health insurance and others were scheduled to protest insurance companies and advocate single-payer health care programs at Fourth and Howard streets in San Francisco at noon today. The protest is one of many nationwide, according to the CNA.