…implemented in 2022, all Americans would be covered under a universal single-payer system.3 Since universal single-payer health care covers all persons regardless of their health status and is free at…
States in the Spotlight as Single-Payer Resurfaces in Mainstream Discourse
…as the only way to cover all Americans and there was majority support for single-payer among the American public. Vermont’s misleading 2011 law: single-payer in name only Single-payer activists were…
An Actual Doctor Debunks 7 Myths About Single Payer Healthcare
…Support for single payer is at an unprecedented level. But not everyone is so enthusiastic, of course. And the opponents of single payer include insurance companies, lobbies, Republicans and a…
Faith groups: health care is a moral right
…from the event at http://picasaweb.google.com/jonflan/SinglePayerTownHallWithJohnConyers# Single Payer New York: http://www.singlepayernewyork.org/ A supplementary note from Mark Dunlea: After the event, the speaker receiving was the most praise was Dr. Andy Coates…
50 doctors for single payer urge Supreme Court to strike down individual mandate
…that, by contrast, a single-payer, Medicare-for-All or VA-for-All-type system would be constitutional – was filed Tuesday by 50 physicians who support single payer. While Physicians for a National Health Program…
Single-payer health care: What could it do on the national stage?
…single-payer system, as well as its challenges and benefits, could lead to a clearer answer. The basic tenets behind a true single-payer system A single-payer health care system is a…
INTERVIEW: Dr. Andy Coates
Selling out health care reform
…keep arguing for single payer, and not take a position on a bill that hadn’t come out. More recently, Single Payer New York put out an unequivocal statement that recommends…
Briefing on single payer national health insurance, April 1, 2009, Washington, D.C.
…heard testimony from a single payer expert in an official congressional hearing. We urge the Committee to review the testimony below, and include a single payer advocate on all future…
Obama's health care reform policy is the wrong prescription, say president's former physician and public health groups
President and Congress urged to support legislation for single-payer health reform
…Sen. Ferlo is co-convening sponsor of State Legislators for Single-Payer Healthcare, a nationwide campaign of state lawmakers who advocate for national single-payer. ***** For more information, go to www.pnhp.org, www.citizen.org/singlepayersolution,…
Labor and the Health Crisis
…limit drug prices and lowering Medicare’s eligibility age from 65 to zero, we would have a national single-payer system, what single-payer advocates often refer to as Medicare-for-all. UNIONS AND SINGLE-PAYER…
Congressional Budget Office Scores Medicare-For-All: Universal Coverage For Less Spending
…scenarios) are summarized in exhibit 1. Exhibit 1: Congressional Budget Office’s five single-payer scenarios Source: Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO’s) Single-Payer Health Care Systems Team. How CBO analyzes the costs of…
Health debate energizing Tucson ‘Medicare for All’ proponents
…payer’ systems. Each country’s approach to single payer is quite different. Canada is often described as the country closest to what a ‘Medicare for All’ single-payer system looks like.” Derksen…
