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The National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981, endorses HR 676, the single payer health care legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI).

Health care should be a right, not a privilege. In the U.S. today, unions are being forced into confrontations with employers over the payment of insurance premiums. Hospitals are going bankrupt as charity cases increase. Meanwhile, the insurance companies haul in super-profits.

The health care crisis has left patients, suffering from terminal illness, in financial ruin and despair. The nation's inability to provide quality health care for preventive check-ups has increased the costs of health maintenance, forcing citizens with otherwise curable conditions to wait until they reach a point of no return to good health. Children's activities have been altered by their parents' fear of medical costs that cannot be paid, forcing children into a life of inactivity and obesity that ruins their health.

The health care crisis has affected the pursuit of happiness that is guaranteed in the U.S. constitution and thus, in this way, has taken away even more freedom than the pursuit of profits has granted. This is why the National Writers Union endorses HR 676 as a way to bring resolution to this nation's health care crisis.