…single-payer system is one in which the government, rather than private insurance companies, pays all health care costs. Some on the left have long harbored hopes for a national single-payer…
RAND exploration of single payer alternatives
…the effects on spending vary. The objectives of this dissertation were to understand single-payer proposals and to estimate health care spending under single-payer alternatives in the United States. Single-payer proposals…
'The health bills in Congress are not real reform'
…like Switzerland or Germany has instead of adopting single payer. Others suggest gradually lowering the eligibility age for Medicare as a stepping stone to single payer. DH: These proposals are…
Health care activists lament single-payer snub
…accepted $413,000 in drug and health insurance campaign contributions during that time. Many single-payer supporters interpret the resistance to the single-payer idea to be simply the result of a formidable…
Which Way to Universal Healthcare?
Two leading reformers debate the role of private insurers
…of single-payer systems, not just Canada or England. For a while, Australia had single-payer, for instance, and Taiwan has a single-payer system. Richard? Richard Kirsch: Health Care for America Now’s…
CAP acknowledges administrative excesses, but…
Excess Administrative Costs Burden the U.S. Health Care System
…need to be attributed to individual patients and insurers.” As Germany shows, both single-payer and multipayer systems can use global budgets. A system combining all-payer rates and global budgeting is…
‘We need fundamental changes’: US doctors call for universal healthcare
…government. Proposing a single-payer system in the US is not new. Vermont previously attempted to implement a single-payer system, which passed the legislature but was shut down by the once…
PNHP Newsletter: Fall 2023
…Pharma Health Inequities Profiteers in Health Care Studies and analysis of interest to single-payer advocates PNHP Chapter Reports Georgia New Hampshire New York Eastern Pennsylvania West Virginia SNaHP Chapter Reports…
Beyond the Affordable Care Act: A Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform
…for Single-Payer Health Care Reform. I am authorized to speak on behalf of my institution, and my institution wishes to endorse the Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform. I…
Obamacare: The Neoliberal Model Comes Home to Roost in the United States—If We Let It
…single-payer approach.41 Ninety-three members of Congress, led by Representative John Conyers and Senator Bernie Sanders, have co-sponsored single-payer legislation.42 What, then, are the obstacles to a single-payer plan, and should…
Doctors group welcomes national debate on ‘Medicare for All’
…groups. Myth: The goal of establishing a single-payer system in the U.S. is unrealistic, or “politically infeasible.” Reality: It’s true that single-payer health reform faces formidable opposition, especially from the…
Single Payer after the Midterm Elections
…hope he will sign a single-payer bill in 2011 when it comes to his desk. (The Legislature there has twice passed a single-payer bill, only to have it vetoed both…
