Will President Obama discuss the single-payer option in his upcoming health care reform summit
The President will be discussing health care reform with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders in two days.
I wonder if he will discuss the potential merits and deteriments of truly transformational health insurance reform — replacement of our multipayer market-based private health insurance system with a single payer national health insurance system (Medicare for All).
As almost every other industrialized nation on the globe has succeeded in achieving universal health care in a cost-effective manner with national health insurance programs, it behooves our leaders to put ideology and political expedience factors aside for the duration of the detente meeting, and discuss this potential solution to our health care crisis. The predicted savings, hundreds of billions of dollars annually, would be an economic stimulus, increasing American business competitiveness, profitability, and affordability to increase hiring.
At the very least, the single-payer health insurance system potential solution to our moral and economic health crisis should be deliberated upon publicly.
Details about the campaign’s platform regarding health care reform can be found at: http://www.danielfreilich.com/health_care.php.
I wouldn’t hold your breath but maybe we will be surprised.
Dan F
Tags: health care, Medicare for All, Single-payer health insurance system, Universal health care insurance
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