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Single Payer Health Care Working Group

Overview of Position on Single Payer Health Care

By Marilyn Clement

We want a good health care system controlled by us, the patients, not the current multiple-payer chaos.

In fact, we specifically do not want the stockmarket and the insurance companies, HMO's and pharmaceutical companies in control of our health care. They have already harvested too much money. They reap windfall profits while we pay for all health care through premiums, taxes, co-pays, deductibles and out of pocket costs. And make no mistake, we all pay for this. [read more]

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Position Papers

The following documents describe our positions in depth on issues related to single payer health care. Documents marked Final have been ratified by PDA. Those marked NR are proposed statements which are not yet ratified. We encourage you to send comments or suggestions by clicking on the "comment" link after each draft.

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What You Can Do

Our working group recommends the following actions for individuals and groups. Follow the links for tips, tools, and suggestions.

• Join the PDA Single Payer Health Care Working Group

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Recommended Resources

• Health Access California--the Health Care Crisis page with excellent bullets concerning "The Problem"
• Health Care Reform and People with Disabilities
• There are many good articles in Health Affairs. Example press release here.
• Woolhandler S, Campbell T, and Himmelstein D. "Costs of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada: Micromanagement, Macro Costs", International Journal of Health Services, 34:1, 65-78, 2004. www.nejm.org, August 21, 2003.
• National Health Insurance Could Save $286 Billion on Health Care Paperwork
• Health Care Paybacks by Public Campaign, August 2004.
• Health Care, Deficit Top CFO Concerns
• One Nation, Uninsured by Paul Krugman, New York Times, June 13, 2005.
• Paying a Premium: The Added Cost of Care for the Uninsured, Families USA, June 2005
• UC Berkeley Labor Center and Working Partnerships USA, Health Care Policy Brief, June 2005. FALLING APART - Declining Job-Based Health Coverage for Working Families in California and the United States By Arindrajit Dube, Ph.D., Ken Jacobs, Sarah Muller, Bob Brownstein and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

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