Health Care for ALL – Oregon (HCAO) is working for secure, affordable health care for each and every Oregonian. We believe the best way to do this is through a universal, single-payer health care system for every resident of the state (and nation). With everyone in the same insurance pool, we can lower costs while providing more comprehensive services than what most residents receive now.
What is Single Payer?
It is a publicly financed, universal health care system, sometimes called Medicare for All or National Health Insurance.
Some single payer systems (such as that in Great Britain and, though we don’t often think about this, the U.S. Veterans Administration) also employ the doctors and fund the hospitals. But most single payer advocates in the U.S. want a system that will simply pay the bills from a single source and cover everyone. Doctors and hospitals will remain in the private sector, and will send their bills to the single payer.
All your questions about single payer answered here by Physicians for a National Health Program
Check here for one state’s list of the 101 benefits of single payer.
Is health care a right or a privilege? What do you think? Is it OK that 18,000 people die each year in the U.S. because they don’t have access to care?
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All – Oregon
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Eugene, OR
97405
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Marching in support of Ballet Measure 23 in Portland, Oregon 2002