disrupter
03-14-2009, 02:36 PM
Physicians support Single Payer Healthcare
Physicians recommend an improved and expanded Medicare-for-All - that is,
a single-payer national health insurance program,
. . .
Physicians find that private, for-profit health insurance companies add cost but no value to the health care system. The administrative waste associated with the private-insurance-based industry -
enormous paperwork,
MARKETING costs, and other costs that have nothing to do with delivering care -
consumes 31 cents of every health care dollar.
As long as we rely on
private health insurers, universal coverage will be
unaffordable.
Mandates to buy private insurance
are NOT the answer.
Experience with mandate plans in Washington state (1993), Oregon (1992) and Massachusetts (1988 and today), shows they simply don't work, achieving neither universal health care nor cost containment.http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/03/05-0
Physicians recommend an improved and expanded Medicare-for-All - that is,
a single-payer national health insurance program,
. . .
Physicians find that private, for-profit health insurance companies add cost but no value to the health care system. The administrative waste associated with the private-insurance-based industry -
enormous paperwork,
MARKETING costs, and other costs that have nothing to do with delivering care -
consumes 31 cents of every health care dollar.
As long as we rely on
private health insurers, universal coverage will be
unaffordable.
Mandates to buy private insurance
are NOT the answer.
Experience with mandate plans in Washington state (1993), Oregon (1992) and Massachusetts (1988 and today), shows they simply don't work, achieving neither universal health care nor cost containment.http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/03/05-0