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No need for any uncertainty, I strongly support a Medicare-for-all type system.
You can read about it on my website.
A week ago, Vince Foster blasted my single-payer concept in his column, and the Rocky was kind enough to print my response today.
My plan goes considerably further than the Obama or Clinton plans in eliminating administrative waste by establishing the largest possible risk-pool under a single-payer.
Jared Polis
http://www.polisforcongress.com
I guess when I consider universal single payer with a big risk pool, I imagine everyone being in the same risk pool and only one payer (the government) paying for health care. Your plan apparently will let rich folks buy “supplemental” insurance that poor folks won’t get. If this is universal health care, then we already have universal health care. Anyone can walk into an E.R. right now and get treated. Also, if there are multiple payers in the system (private and public) then by definition it isn’t single payer. So if your plan isn’t universal…and it isn’t single payer…why do you insist on calling it both?
This is a universal single-payer healthcare plan.
When people ask if the plan is modeled after Canada, Germany, England, etc, I respond that quite simply it is modeled after a plan we already have in place in this country: Medicare.
While Medicare isn’t perfect (how to improve it is a whole other discussion) at the very least all seniors have coverage in place through a single-payer. If you don’t consider Medicare a model of an existing single-payer system in this country, I suggest that you learn more.
Jared Polis
The rich always have more options. I know in England there is supplimental private insurance available.
Bringing medicare to everyone is a giant improvement over what we have now. And we have the system in place and it works. I think it’s very legit for Jared to say he proposes single payer and in a way that is very credible.
He also speaks to it in the online debate – http://www.davidthielen.info/p…
on the KGNU interview two weeks ago, when the interviewer said “I’m not hearing the words single-payer,” only Joan F-G spoke up? You and Will did not.
I frequently mention my support for a single-payer healthcare system on the stump, and have done so on both radio and television. In fact, that is what Vince Carrol’s column attacked me for: my support of a single-payer healthcare plan.
Please read my piece entitle Why a National Single Payer Healthcare system is best for all. if you have any questions.
Jared
http://www.polisforcongress.com