Universal health

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I got this recent e-mail , that reiterates that more organizations favor the single payer system. I have submitted 3 resolutions to the ACOEM House of Delegates & will post them one at a time here. If you support them or parts of them please email: Jerrie Abrahansen - jabrahamsen@... and McLellan MD - .K.McLellan@... Date: March 28, 2008Subject: Health InsuranceIntroduced By: Egilman, MD MPH-RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF SINGLE PAYER NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE WHEREAS everyone deserves access to affordable quality health care; andWHEREAS the number of Americans without health insurance now exceeds 47 million; andWHEREAS millions with insurance have coverage so skimpy that a major illness would lead to financial ruin, and medical

illness and bills contribute to one-half of all bankruptcies; andWHEREAS proposals for _consumer directed health care_ would worsen this situation by penalizing the sick, discouraging prevention and saddling many working families with huge medical bills; andWHEREAS managed care and other market-based reforms have failed to contain health care costs, which now threaten the international competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers; andWHEREAS administrative waste stemming from our reliance on private insurers consumes one-third of health spending; andWHEREAS U.S. hospitals spend 24.3% of their budgets on billing and administration while hospitals under Canada’s single payer system spend only 12.9%; andWHEREAS American physicians are inundated with bureaucratic tasks and costs that Canadian physicians avoid; andWHEREAS Harvard researchers estimated that more than $300 billion could be recovered by replacing private insurance companies with a single public

payer, enough to cover the uninsured and to improve coverage for all those who now have only partial coverage; andWHEREAS consumer directed health care adds yet another expensive layer of bureaucrats - the financial firms that manage health savings accounts; NOW THEREFOREBE IT RESOLVED that ACOEM expresses its support for single-payer national health insurance and calls upon federal legislators to work towards its enactment within the current Congress.Financial Statement: No cost

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