Politics of Health Care

 

• Health Care for All-California "Changing to a universal health care system would save enough money to provide comprehensive coverage and greater benefits by covering everyone under one insurance plan. Health care services would still be delivered through both public and private providers."

• Green Party position on health care: "The Green Party considers health care a human right, and therefore supports a single-payer national insurance program for the United States.  This program would  be publicly financed at the national level, administered locally, and privately delivered, i.e., private physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers would remain private and competitive, and consumers given full choice of provider."

• Phantoms in the Snow: Canadians' Use Of Health Care Services in the United States "Surprisingly few Canadians travel to the United States for health care, despite the persistence of the myth."  Canada has a universal health care system.

• U.S. Wastes Health-care Funds: Administrative Costs Double Canada's Rate - Better System Could Aid Millions Researchers Say,  Toronto Star, August 21, 2003. "Thirty-one cents of every dollar spent on health care in the United States goes to pay administrative costs -- nearly double the rate in Canada, ..."

• Physicians for a National Health Program is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive Single-Payer National Health Program. PNHP has more than 10,000 members and chapters across the United States.