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Our Mission: Single-Payer National Health Insurance
Greg Silver, MD
The U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, $8,160 per capita. Yet our system performs poorly in comparison and still leaves 46.3 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered.
This is because private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $400 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.
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What You Can Do
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The Physicians' Proposal
Marcia Angell, MD
Past Editor
New England
Journal of Medicine
We endorse a fundamental change in America's health care - the creation of a comprehensive National Health Insurance (NHI) Program. Such a program - which in essence would be an expanded and improved version of Medicare - would cover every American for all necessary medical care.
Click here to read the entire proposal (pdf)
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Dear President Obama: endorse single payer
Steffie Woolhandler, MD
Tell President Obama that single-payer health reform is the only practicable way to achieve his stated goal of universal, comprehensive coverage at an affordable price.
Only single payer, by redirecting the vast sums wasted annually on bureaucracy and paperwork back into care, can assure high-quality coverage for everyone with no net increase in U.S. health spending. Only single payer can rein in costs.
Lesser reforms, with or without a “public option,” won’t fix our broken system.
Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and Quentin Young testified before Congress on June 24. Read their testimony and get additional analysis and lobbying materials here.
Margaret Flowers, MD
Physicians like Dr. Margaret Flowers were among 13 people arrested for demanding that single payer be “on the table” at two Senate Finance Committee meetings in May. Read why she took this action here.