I am your constituent and I want you and your legislative staff to know about a Commonwealth Fund report that was just released that compares the health of women in the US to women in our peer industrialized nations. Here is a link to the report, https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2024/aug/health-care-women-how-us-compares-internationally.
Because women have insufficient health care (14% uninsured up to age 65) they die earlier than in our peer countries 80 years vs 87 years in Japan, 86 years in France), and the the number of women whose deaths is preventable is 270/100,000. That’s 260% MORE THAN IN FRANCE.
You have an obligation to look out for your constituents - that is why we sent you there. I want you to actively support a national single payer insurance trust, like HR 3421, that will insure all of us for far less than we pay now. The independent Congressional Budget Office puts the savings at over $400 billion EVERY YEAR. Here is their report, https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56898. Do it.
