The Uninsured in California: Single-Payer Health Care
Project California
July 13, 2005
Serious ailments afflict California’s health care system. The “single-payer” model is seen by many as one possible cure. Advocates say such a system would provide universal coverage at less cost. But while single-payer has been much debated in California, it never has been enacted. Why? What are the obstacles it has failed to overcome?
E. Richard Brown, Ph.D., director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and Gerald Kominski, Ph.D., associate director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, met with Project California to discuss the political and ideological obstacles confronting establishment of a single-payer system in California.
http://www.projectcalifornia.org/site/pp.asp?c=nmL9KgNYLyH&b=880703
Comment: This article was selected for today’s message because it provides a clear, highly credible, objective explanation of the single payer model of reform, and some of the obstacles to reform. You may find this article useful in your efforts to educate others about single payer.