Roadmap to Single-Payer

July 19, 2013 --

How do we get there?

  1. Pass a Law
  2. Obtain a Waiver from the Affordable Care Act
  3. Develop a Strategy to Integrate a State-Coordinated System with Medicare
  4. Integrate Medicaid and SCHIP with the State System
  5. Determine How to Deal with Workers' Compensation Health Benefits
  6. Address Other Federal Health Benefits Programs
  7. Avoid Being Struck Down on ERISA Grounds
  8. Determine How to Pay for the Unified Health Care Program

The details are here in this valuable, easy-to-read document, subtitled How States Can Escape the Clutches of the Private Health Insurance System.

In a related article entitled Single Payer movement in the era of Obamacare, Daily Kos offers this diagram of how this would look in California.

Now that we have a roadmap, let's go!

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