Single Payer System for Health Care Reform

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Joy125

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:50 PM

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The presidential candidates' health care reform proposals would either build on the existing private and public system of health insurance with shared responsibility for financing coverage by government, employers, and households (Obama) or move away from employer based coverage to the individual health insurance market with tax incentives to subsidize purchase (McCain). But is there another option -- single payer insurance?

The following article by by Drs. Edward P. Ehlinger and Susanne L. King which appears in the Physicians for National Health Program (PNHP) website answers the following questions:

1) What is single-payer health care?

2) Is single payer socialized medicine?

3) Doesn’t Medicare have big problems?

4) Can we afford single payer, if that means covering 47 million uninsured people?

5) Won’t there be waiting lines or rationing with single payer?

6) Won’t our aging population break the bank in a single-payer system?

7) Some people believe that their insurance is meeting their needs; why should they change?
8) How would single payer be financed?
9) Who would run a single-payer plan?
10) Won’t doctors dislike a single-payer system?
11) How would we get to a single-payer system?
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/august/what_about_single_pa.php

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