ATSU group makes case for single payer system
The documentary was
"Our worst fears were realized," Potter said.
Potter came to
Potter worked for years in corporate communications for health care companies, ultimately heading the department for insurance giant Cigna.
"I was a staunch believer and supporter of the free market," Potter said.
Potter said his job was to convince the public that private insurance was the most beneficial system for health care. In the early 2000s, he said, that job largely consisted of moving consumers to high-deductible plans which the industry called "consumer-driven care," meaning people would pay more up front for their health care costs before insurance coverage began.
Potter said his process of changing his mind about the health care industry began when he saw that
"He took a great deal of pains to make sure that he was portraying the system really very accurately," Potter said.
As Potter pondered what to do next, a high-profile case hit the media. A 17-year-old girl,
Potter said he convinced the company's executives to reverse their decision.
"The problem was that days had passed. That liver was no longer available," Potter said. "Five days before Christmas, Nataline died."
Potter quit his job in 2008 and is now a writer who travels the country advocating for a single payer health care system. He said the Affordable Care Act has helped the problem slightly, but it is not enough.
"We are all just a layoff away from being among the ranks of the uninsured," Potter said.
Like Potter, PNHP supports a proposal they call "expanded and improved Medicare for All." They support a bill first introduced in
The cost of creating such a system in
"Single payer national health reform would save nearly
Dr.
"Once they graduate, it's their system, and they know the current system is in crisis,"
According to data from Gallup Polling, about 44 million Americans are uninsured and an additional 38 million are under-insured, meaning their insurance cannot cover their actual medical costs.
Most other Western countries have a single payer health care system. A national poll by
"The insurance companies throw down all these barriers to patients,"
"No more premiums, no more copays, no more coinsurance, no more deductibles,"
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