Start：Broken Health Care System
- Highest cost in world
- Poorest outcomes in developed countries
- Documented waste, fraud and abuse
- Moving AWAY from full coverage for all
- Deep disparities between races and zipcodes
- Providers squeezed between Owners and Patients
- Anti-competitive practices–monopoly pricing
- Bewildering choice of inconsistent insurance plans; limited choice of providers
- No one would PLAN a system like ours
Realign Incentives
- Check profit-first model
- Realign incentives to promote health: provide facilities for everyone, adopt goal of health justice, democratic governance
Exit Profiteers
- Take private profiteers out of the system
- laws, regulation, viable alternatives
Explore Other Systems
- Explore health care systems around the globe (policy, cost, outcomes)
Get public support for HCA
- Achieve consensus: Non-profit, simplified, private delivery, public financing through progressive taxes
Make it work
- Promote consensus program – policy makers, general public; laws, ballot questions, resources
Finish：Health Justice for ALL
- Adopt public “Family and Business Health Security Act”
- revitalize medical education; innovation, healthy competition, free of monopolies
[Note to readers: In case you can’t tell, this detour to Single Payer 101 is under construction. We appreciate your patience–and your comments and suggestions. Please contact us through the webform for the HCR Interest Group.]
