Health care advocates are urging that the State Senate take action on the proposal to create a Legislative Commission on Health Care Coverage (A6575) when it meets in Albany on Tuesday. "The current health care system in New York State provides increasingly expensive health care to an ever smaller number of New York residents,” added Dr. Paul Sorum, Chair of Physicians for a National Health Program. “It wastes tremendous amounts of physicians' and patients' time and money in dealing with the morass of paperwork and regulations imposed by the current multiplicity of insurers and insurance plans. Whether you ask patients, doctors, other health care providers, large and small employers, employees, taxpayers, or elected officials, they agree that our health care system is very sick and even on the verge of collapse. As soon as possible the Legislature needs to set up a Commission to study how best to achieve universal access for all New Yorkers to comprehensive, high quality, cost-effective health care."