Petitions Seek California vote on Canada style Health Plan
Push National Executive state-run systems for health insurance, a coalition of consumers, doctors and groups of petitions presented today, which allows citizens of California’s vote this fall for a Canadian-style ” payer unique “project.
Cardboard boxes with more than one million signatures of 10,000 volunteers were the registrar of voters in each country circle today, organizers said that more than 677000 to the problem of the ballot, November 8. Counties are required to register voters, the verification of signatures before the measure can be placed on the ballot.
The plan, which would eliminate private insurance companies health care, financed, in particular by taxes and securing, on the progress of 31 million inhabitants. Similar plans in which the government pays the costs for medical care, are currently in over 30 states, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, even if no state has one. California, where everyone complies with the Americans, then the first country to have a proposal on the ballot by a petition drive. The resistance by insurers
“Today, everything was on insurance a chance to win the approval and a single payer health reform in this state and push single-payer in the centre of national debate as an option,” said Martha Kowalski, director of the Organization for safety for Californians, organized group that the petition drive.
Insurance companies opposition leaders on the map of California, argued that it would be costly and that the issue of health personnel in the hands of a state bureaucracy, with all its shortcomings and Zudringlichkeit.
In addition, there are doubts about the effectiveness of a law by the voters of the initiative as a process and not the legislative debate to come. For example, a revision of self-insurance, by voters during the years 1988, has been seriously under-court challenges from industry and the opposition.
If, instead of its realization under the Public-Private-system, Richard Coorsh, a spokesman for the Health Insurance Association of America, a trade group, said: “The notion of launching their hands and said “Let the government do it” is fairly easy to understand. But the effects of turning over a large part of the economy of the USA, it is likely that among consumers at a higher cost and low quality health care. ”
In San Francisco, Monday, Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized a Canadian-style, say: “We believe it should be a private insurance market, a mixed system between the public and private sectors, finance and supply conditions . We appreciate that competition. ”
President Clinton in terms of primary health care, the employer’s liability for payment of health insurance, workers pay a small portion of grants for small businesses at low wages. But his plan also offers the possibility, USA by adopting its own individual plans whose payer systems.
The California estimated cost of $ 105 billion per year if, in its entirety in 1996, an elected Commissioner for health care costs to negotiate a broad range of services, including long-term psychiatric care and prescription drugs. There would therefore consumers to choose their doctors, hospitals or health organizations and replace Medi-Cal and private insurance, and operating systems.
The plan will be financed by a tax on business income, income tax, an additional 2.5 per cent to 5 per cent, $ 1-a-pack cigarette tax rates and existing state sponsors said. You say that the plan would generally costs individuals and businesses the same amount they pay for health insurance.
“This requires a system that is better than Canada and 40 per cent more resources,” said Glen Schneider, president of Campaign for the safety of the public health of Californians.
But, unlike Mr. Coorsh: “It makes little sense, ready for the second most expensive in the world, the health system to improve our own.” He said, Canada’s problems without increasing costs, reduced services and long waiting periods for emergency care and surgery.
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