Proposal: Health Care for ALL

Health care for all. A single payer system, which will be phased in over a 20 year period of time.

To start:

If you are employed and have health insurance, you may stay in it.
If you don't have it, you will be able to sign up. (Initially a Medicaid type system)
If you can't afford it, you will get assistance.

A 20 year phase in is necessary, so that insurance companies are involved in moving the plans forward.

Next, there will be plan mobility, so everyone can eventually get the new national plan (that our Congressmen and Senators currently have!)


Next: cost of medical plans will need to be moved from employers to government, and a tax credit might be a means of doing so.

Next: forbid companies from "slimming down" their health plans year after year.

Next: make sure drug companies are no longer allowed to sell directly to consumers...
(reduce costs)

These ideas are where we need to start.


Eventuallly, (say after 3 years) some of the employee plans will be taken over by the insurers (as opposed to by the employer (At&T/IBM/etc.) as a step to merging to several large national plans.

In the beginning, every X years, the government will put out a bid for management of the health plan.

eventually we might wind up with 4-6 national plans, that are similar, but run by different companies. this will help to unify them.

Notice that in this plan we do NOT
privatize or nationalize the Doctors
Reduce health care allocations.

We do save from
larger pools of insured people
less managerial costs, and NO PROFITTERING motives!

This is a key plan... Without nationalized health care, we will have problems with all other parts of the Real New deal