Greg Silver, John Russell and Mark Adams discuss issues that will help those who are interested, to better understand the facts surrounding a National Single Payer Health Plan.
Excerpts from http://www.johnrussellforcongress.com
Medicare For ALL Plan!
This IS IT!
* New Competition for Private Insurers: The Edwards plan creates new choices for American families. The new Health Care Markets will be available to everyone who does not get comparable insurance from their jobs or a public program and to employers who choose to join rather than offer their own insurance plans. Families and individuals will choose the plan that works best for them. The markets will include a new public plan similar to Medicare.
The markets will include a new public plan similar to Medicare. In this Public Option Plan people could choose between continuing with their employer based or private insurance plan or choose to enroll in the public "Medicare for All" option.
In this plan, people of any age could enroll in Medicare paying a "premium" based on their ability to pay. The "premium" would be progressive according to income but with a maximum cap that would ensure for example that someone such as Warren Buffett would not pay any more for his premium than Donald Trump. I envision this plan at a minimum to be at least 40% less expensive than any comparable private insurance alternative due to inherent efficiencies associated with eliminating insurance company costs on many levels.
Medicare's current and projected financial outlook is less than optimal without some adjustment to its financial mechanism. Currently, the demographic that describes Medicare's population of enrollees is largely composed of people who on the whole are greater than average utilizers of health care services.
The new Medicare as I envision it will prosper as my plan broadens the natural composition of the population to include younger people who are on average minimal users of health care services. These new younger enrollees will however through their premiums will be dramatically strengthening the fiscal status of Medicare while simultaneously being the momentum for single payer universally accessible health care in this country.
For those who unable to pay, their status as non-paying patients will change. They will be enrolled in the "Medicare for All" public fund as a matter of course as subsidized patients as far as their Medicare premiums are concerned, but fully paying patients from the perspective of providers and facilities that provide health care services. No longer will providers be asked to bear the burden of financing those who are unable to pay.
Often an inequitably distributed burden, the care of the poor is most often concentrated disproportionately in large urban tertiary care centers. If each patient is a paying patient as my plan envisions, then the distribution of care provided for those of meager means will be more evenly distributed by institution and more convenient for the patient. Increased patient convenience no matter their individual socio-economic status should result in improved patient compliance with treatment plans as well as preventative care and education.
For More information on the necessity of Health Care Reform including a Publicly Funded Option please visit http://www.pnhp.org (Physicians for a National Health Plan)
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