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President-elect Bill Clinton should use his mandate to reform the nation's health care system to create a "single-payer" insurance program that controls overall costs and guarantees access to all citizens, Sen. Paul Wellstone told a Kennedy School of Government audience yesterday...
...Braun's main concerns are the Illinois and national economies. Taking a jab at Republicans, Braun says "The greatest family value is employment." She wants to rebuild Illinois' infrastructure and create a single-payer health care system...
Jackson has considerable differences with Clinton on national health care. Clinton supports a plan where employers contribute health care funding; Jackson supports a government-funded "single payer" plan...
...government would draw up a portfolio of minimum care for all Americans. Private companies would continue to offer coverage to workers under employer-paid plans and could devise policies to defray the costs of risky or experimental procedures. A more advanced form of universal care is the "single-payer" system, in which the government would completely replace private insurers and regulate physician fees. Such a system exists in Canada, and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey has made a modified universal plan the centerpiece of his presidential campaign...
Unfortunately, excessive care doesn't mean better care. In her book Medicine and Culture, Lynn Payer compared medical treatments in America, England, West Germany and France and found that American doctors are far more aggressive in prescribing and treating and testing and operating than their European counterparts. Sad to say, though, we are not healthier, and American medical care is no more effective than that of the less intrusive nations...