What is Universal Single Payer Health Care?

MOST COST LESS MASS CARE Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care

UNIVERSAL SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE WOULD:
COST LESS THAN CURRENT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
COVER ALL MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENTS
ALLOW CHOICE OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER
COVER A FULL RANGE OF BENEFITS FOR EVERONE
HAVE ONE AGENCY PAY(SINGLE PAYER) FOR EVERYONE'S CARE
SAVE 60%OF CURRENT ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.

THE HEALTH CARE MELT DOWN
Over 630,000 people in state did not have helath insurance in 1998
Older patients are being dumped by their HMO'S
Many people have lost the right to choose their health provider.
The United States is the only industrialized country with no national
health insurance.
Health care costs in the United States are higher than anywhere else
in the world, but our health ranking is declining.
Drugs are twice as expensive in the U.S. than in Canada
Health care insurance premiums are increasing by 10%-15% per year.
Increasing layoffs of nurses threaten the quality of hospital care.
1500 insurance plans and greedy drug companies are bankrupting
health care in America.

SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE.
is a fair and simplified way to pay for health care. It would set up a SINGLE PUBLIC FUND which would pay all health care providers for all health care bills for all residents.
The fund would collect all health care monies now being spent. It would negotiate rates and pay providers.
This public fund would cut at least 15% from health care by cutting the RED TAPE AND WASTE CAUSED BY THE 1,500 DIFFERENT INSURANCE PLANS
The fund would be ACCOUNTABLE to the public, unlike private insurance companies, which are accountable to stockholders.
A tax, similiar to Medicare or Social Security, would replace all spending for health care needs.
All Massachusetts residents would be covered for the same FULL RANGE OF HEALTH BENEFITS.