Medicare For All:
Single-Payer National Health Insurance
Howie Hawkins supports HR 676, The United States National Health Insurance Act, (Expanded and Improved Medicare For All), a bill in Congress with 70 sponsors.
HR 676 provides for publicly financed and privately delivered health care for all, with free choice of doctors and hospitals by patients and comprehensive coverage of all medical services, at less cost to working people and society than our existing "pay or die" system of private insurance.
Private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $350 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.
Costs would also be controlled in part by the single payer negotiating fees and making bulk purchases.
The private system leaves 47 million Americans uninsured and 50 million more only partially insured. The US spends twice as much per person as any other country on health care, yet ranks 37th in health care, according to the World Health Organization. 18,000 people die each year for lack of insurance, according to the Institute of Medicine. Medical bills cause over half of US household bankruptcies each year.
It's time to make good health care a right, not a commodity you must "buy or die."
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