Grassroots volunteers for universal single-payer health insurance

Why Single-Payer?

	The US is the only industrialized nation that does not provide health care for all its citizens.
	It's far more expensive to deny health coverage to 45 million Americans than it would be to give excellent coverage to everyone.
	Healthcare costs are increasingly unaffordable for businesses, workers, and families alike.
	No one should ever have to choose between their finances and their health.
	Our medical system is dictated by insurance corporations that are not as nearly as concerned about health as they are about profits.
	Other health care "reforms" only address the symptoms without addressing the core problems that underlie our health care system.

Would you live in a community like this?

	Police protection for only those who could afford it?
	Fire protection for only those who could afford it?
	Public schools for only those who could afford it?

Why then do we have health care for only those who can afford it? The seriously ill are least able to keep working to maintain their insurance and pay their bills.

What is a Single-Payer System?

	Everyone is covered—the young and the old, the working and the unemployed, the healthy and the sick, the rich and the poor.
	There are no financial barriers to getting medical care.
	No one is denied coverage, whether because of age, income, or "pre-existing" conditions.
	Doctors and hospitals send claims to one streamlined, publicly accountable insurance commission, which reimburses them fairly.
	Funding is similar to Social Security; we each contribute a little, so we all share in having secure insurance.
	No co-payments and no deductibles. Whatever is medically necessary is covered 100%.
	Single-payer systems are already the standard in the rest of the industrialized world.