New York should implement universal health care coverage for all its residents, Public Citizen told state lawmakers today as part of a series of meetings on the benefits of single-payer health care. Public forums are being held to hear from all New Yorkers on a proposal for a statewide single-payer health care system. Its more urgent than ever for New Yorkers to learn about the benefits of universal health care, said Vijay Das, health care advocate for Public Citizen. Recent health care reform discussions in Washington, D.C., have centered around the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Yet the ACA wasnt meant to be a universal health care system; rather, it curbed some of the most egregious insurance practices while expanding the benefits of insurance to more Americans, but while leaving insurance companies in charge of pricing policies and provision of care decisions. Meanwhile, many people continue to struggle because the law was built on a weak foundation, preserving our pocketbook-busting and inefficient for-profit health insurance model, Das explained. The ACA is leaving an estimated 30 million Americans uninsured, including an unconscionable one million veterans.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:41:21 +0000
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