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The profit motive has no place in healthcare
California needs single payer healthcare with universal coverage: with access to healthcare for everyone, period —the desire of 81% of all Californians, as reported in a January, 2007 Field Poll by the California Nurses Association (CNA). . One third of every health care dollar in California now goes for paperwork, to protect profits by denying care, compared to about 3% administrative costs under Medicare, a single-payer, universal system.
Here are some features of single payer healthcare
- A single payer system would produce the savings needed to cover everyone, largely by using existing resources without the waste.
- Caregivers and patients regain the autonomy to make decisions on what’s best for a patient’s health, not what’s dictated by the billing department or the bean counters.
- The public system sets fair reimbursements applied equally to all providers while assuring all comprehensive and appropriate health care is delivered, and uses its clout to negotiate volume discounts for prescription drugs and medical equipment.
- The public sets the policies and administers the system, not high priced CEOs meeting in secret and making decisions based on what inflates their compensation packages or stock wealth or company profits.
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