A Proposal for Single-Payer National Health Insurance

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Single Payer

How Single-payer Stacks Up: Evaluating Different Models of Universal Health Coverage on Cost, Access, and Quality

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 568-585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Fox ◽  
Roland Poirier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Universal Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Single Payer ◽  
Access And Quality ◽  
Universal Health

Described as “universal prepayment,” the national health insurance (or single-payer) model of universal health coverage is increasingly promoted by international actors as a means of raising revenue for health care and improving social risk protection in low- and middle-income countries. Likewise, in the United States, the recent failed efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act have renewed debate about where to go next with health reform and arguably opened the door for a single-payer, Medicare-for-All plan, an alternative once considered politically infeasible. Policy debates about single-payer or national health insurance in the United States and abroad have relied heavily on Canada’s system as an ideal-typical single-payer system but have not systematically examined health system performance indicators across different universal coverage models. Using available cross-national data, we categorize countries with universal coverage into those best exemplifying national health insurance (single-payer), national health service, and social health insurance models and compare them to the United States in terms of cost, access, and quality. Through this comparison, we find that many critiques of single-payer are based on misconceptions or are factually incorrect, but also that single-payer is not the only option for achieving universal coverage in the United States and internationally.

Why Oncologists Should Support Single-Payer National Health Insurance

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray E. Drasga ◽  
Lawrence H. Einhorn
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Insurance Plan ◽  
Health Insurance Plan ◽  
Single Payer

The authors support the establishment of a single-payer national health insurance plan and encourage ASCO to put its advocacy behind such a program.

The Elusive Goal of Universal Health Care in the U.S.: Organized Labor and the Institutional Straightjacket of the Private Welfare State

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Gottschalk
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Single Payer ◽  
Health Insurance Premiums ◽  
Medical Benefits ◽  
Employer Mandate

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, national health insurance returned briefly to the political limelight with renewed calls for a single-payer health-care system that would eliminate any significant role for commercial insurers in the provision of health care. Organized labor, however, which had been a longtime proponent of national health insurance, did not warmly embrace the single-payer solution. Instead, much of the national leadership of organized labor supported some kind of employer-mandate solution that would require employers to pay a portion of their employees' health insurance premiums, thus leaving the private welfare state of job-based medical benefits largely intact.

scholarly journals Single-Payer National Health Insurance

2004 ◽  
Vol 164 (3) ◽  
pp. 300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny McCormick ◽  
David U. Himmelstein ◽  
Steffie Woolhandler ◽  
David H. Bor
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Single Payer
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