Single-Payer Universal Health Care

A National Health Insurance Program

Anita de Palma believes that a National Health Insurance Program (NHI) is the only affordable option for universal, comprehensive coverage. Under the current system, expanding access to health care means increasing costs and, under the current system, reducing costs means limiting access. But NHI will both expand access and reduce costs. It will squeeze out bureaucratic waste and eliminate the perverse incentives that threaten the quality of care and the ethical foundations of medicine. Under a single-payer system, all Americans would be covered for all medically necessary services, including: doctor, hospital, long-term care, mental health, dental, vision, prescription drug and medical supply costs. Patients would regain free choice of doctor and hospital, and doctors would regain autonomy to provide the best patient care.

This is A BRIGHTER WAY!

A Plan for Universal Health Care

Essential Components

  • Every American Man, Woman and Child is Covered.
  • No Co-Payments.
  • Pays ALL Physicians, Diagnostic, Hospital, Home Health, Eye Care, Dental & Drug Costs.
  • No Specialist Referrals Required.
  • Individuals Can Go to Any Healthcare Provider.
  • Veterans No Longer Beholding to just the VA for Health Care.
  • Totally Eliminates the Current Projected Medicare Shortfall.
  • No Health Care Capitation or Rationing Requirements.
  • It is Completely Funded!

 

The Critical Challenges We Now Face

The Current Health Care System Does Not Work for All Americans: Currently, the U.S. health care system is outrageously expensive, yet inadequate. Despite spending more than twice as much as the rest of the industrialized nations ($7,129 per capita), the United States performs poorly in comparison on major health indicators such as life expectancy, infant mortality and immunization rates. Moreover, the other advanced nations provide comprehensive coverage to their entire populations, while the U.S. leaves 46 million completely uninsured and millions more inadequately covered.