Single-Payer System Would Be a Boon to the Economy, Public Citizen Report Says

[eridani]

http://www.healthcare-now.org/single-payer-system-would-be-a-boon-to-economy-public-citizen-report-says

A publicly funded, universal health care system would aid businesses by engendering a more dynamic economy, taming costs and freeing businesses that provide health insurance of the costs of administering benefits and subsidizing the nation’s health care,a Public Citizen report released last week concludes.

“Small businesses have rated the cost of health insurance as their top concern for a quarter century, and large businesses struggle with health care obligations that their international competitors do not have to worry about,” said Taylor Lincoln, research director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division and author of the report. “If it weren’t for entrenched partisan alliances, business leaders would have demanded that Congress relieve them of health care burdens long ago.”

Publicly funded universal health care systems – such as the Canadian “single-payer” system, in which the government pays for all covered services – exist in nearly every developed country in the world. In the United States, universal care systems could be implemented either at the federal or state levels. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 includes language permitting states to apply for waivers that would enable them to institute universal care systems beginning in 2017. Vermont has passed legislation declaring an intention to do just that.

Public Citizen’s report, “Severing the Tie That Binds,” outlines three ways a universal health care system would benefit businesses.

[otherone]

1. enteprenuers would thrive

knr

[DirkGently]

2. Artists, too.

[rhett o rick]

3. k&r thanks for posting. nm

[Wilms]

4. ^

[IronLionZion]

5. Whenever teabaggers complain about the ACA as a socialist job killer

I tell them we might as well move forward to single payer since it really is the pro-business plan. It is the lowest cost for employers, and greatly encourages small businesses who have limited resources.

We won't need any online marketplaces. It would be simpler to sign up for with less confusion. No one gets left behind, obviously. But no more out of network limits. Choose any provider and have them bill Medicare.



The real fight would be over provider payment rates, and choosing what is covered. This will be a brutal and expensive propaganda fight if and when we ever get to that. The lies and manipulation over the ACA doesn't come close.

[Ron Green]

6. State by State; that's how it'll happen.

That's how it got done in Canada.

Please hook up with your state's Health Care for All organization. Join or start a local chapter. Give them money.

[eridani]

7. Link to state organizations below

http://www.pnhp.org/stateactions