…now being used by opponents of single payer to “prove” that the government would be incapable of running a single payer system – an obvious non sequitur. Since the enactment…
Students speak out for single payer at Vermont Statehouse
…platform of enacting a single-payer system. Forty to fifty years ago, young Americans from all over the East Coast trickled into Vermont to escape the negative social values which they…
The Doctors’ Revolt
…AMA members favored single-payer reform in 1992, the figure had soared to 42 percent by 2004. Single-payer proved more popular than more modest measures like public programs to cover the…
As Obama Hosts Summit on Healthcare, Marginalized Advocates Ask Why Single-Payer is Ignored
…nobody out.” That is to say, in a single-payer system, you don’t have a system for deciding who gets treatment. So, you have one payer, obviously the single payer, usually…
New Health Affairs article on administrative waste
…care system through, for example, mandating a single-payer approach. Rather, mandating a single set of rules, a single claim form, standard rules of submission, and transparent payment adjudication — with…
New Health Affairs article on administrative waste
Saving Billions Of Dollars — And Physicians’ Time — By Streamlining Billing Practices
…we need is a single billing form and a single set of rules, thereby obviating the need to switch to a single payer model of health care financing. The authors…
JAMA – Woolhandler and Himmelstein explain single payer Medicare for All
Single-Payer Reform — “Medicare for All”
…amounts of documentation. In single-payer nations, the sole insurer can use comprehensive claims data to monitor for outlandish billing patterns. A 2019 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report concluded that single-payer…
Universal healthcare was unthinkable in America, but not any more
A single-payer healthcare system appears closer than ever but to make it a reality we must avoid the pitfalls of the past
…real universal healthcare had long resided on the margins of the American political discourse. Obama’s announcement, then, was yet one more indication that this idea – also called single-payer healthcare…
Vermont Poised to Become 1st State to Enact Single-Payer Healthcare
…actually were neutral on the bill. They said that they envision themselves as being the single payer—in other words, the single processor of claims—if we got our single-payer system in…
Asking about single-payer for Massachusetts
…our country, states, towns and individuals. Here are the questions people most frequently ask. 1) What is single-payer health care? “Single-payer” refers to the administration of the health care funds…
Capitol Hill Updates
…single-payer national health insurance. Pro-single-payer physicians call for defeat of Senate health bill – December 22, 2009 Message from Massachusetts – January 21, 2010 By Marcia Angell, MD | Huffington…
PNHP commentary on the Vermont health reform bill
…to fight to strengthen the single payer section of this bill, keep single payer in the bill at all (there will likely be attempts to strike it), get the necessary…
