Who We Are
Single Payer Action is a national non-profit. Founded by activists. For the American people. Seeking to implement a single payer health insurance system in the United States. Medicare for all. In our lifetimes. What Is Single Payer?
Right now we have many hundreds of payers. They are called insurance corporations. We would get rid of them. And replace them with a single payer. Instead of paying premiums to private for profit insurance companies like Aetna, CIGNA, and Wellpoint, we would all pool our money into one public insurance pool. We would be paying the same or less than we are paying now. Save $400 billion a year in administrative overhead, waste and profits. Use that money to insure everyone -- cradle to grave. You get an insurance card. And it gets you into to see any doctor or any hospital. Anywhere in the country. No bills. No co-pays. No deductibles. No more bankruptcies from medical bills. No more 120Americans dead a day due to lack of health insurance (according to an Institute of Medicine report.) As Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine puts it, single payer is not only the best health care reform, it's the only health care reform that will both control costs and cover everyone. Single payer. Everybody in. Nobody out. What We Don't Do
We don't do coalitions with front groups. We don't do inside the beltway politics. We will never compromise on single payer. What We Want
Single payer. Simple. Direct. Everybody in. Nobody out. What We Do
We do direct action. Face to face with the health insurance industry. In front of the home office of your member of Congress. In front of your member of Congress, wherever he or she may be. Until we get single payer. Why We Do What We Do
We are sick that 45,000 Americans die every year from lack of health insurance. We are sick of health insurance companies jacking up premiums while their health insurance company CEOs make out like bandits. We are sick of high deductibles, co-pays, and the in-network, out-of-network Rube Goldberg system we live under.
from the "About Us" page at singlepayeraction.org (bold added above by me)
Every other 1st world country has some sort of universal health care system. Everyone gets covered everywhere but here in the US. 45,000 Americans die a year due to lack of affordable health care. That's over 100 per day.
Forcing everyone to have health care doesn't make health care affordable, it puts people in debt. We need reform, but taking away our choice is not reform in the right direction.
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