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Single-payer system
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Single-payer system+definitions
Single-payer health care is a public service financing the delivery of near-universal or universal health care to a given population as defined by age, citizenship, residency, or any other demographic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_health_care
Single-payer system+best practices
Citizen action or resource groups
- Healthcare-NOW!. A nonprofit advocacy group for single-payer healthcare.
- Physicians for a National Health Program. Advocates for single-payer system. Extensive source material from peer-reviewed journals.
- Progressive Democrats of America Advocates for single-payer system.
- Single Payer Action. Activist nonprofit organization supporting single-payer universal healthcare.
- Single Payer Central. An independent/unaffiliated central clearing house of information (groups, legislation, etc.), for single-payer.
Articles, books, and broadcast programs
- Five myths about health care around the world "For people over 65, we're Canada..for the tens of millions without insurance coverage, we're Burundi or Burma" by T.R. Reid, a former Washington Post reporter.
- Institute of Medicine Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance. Hidden costs, value lost: uninsurance in America. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2003. Frequently-cited monograph.
- Sick Around the World: Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health care system? from Frontline, PBS.
- Single Payer Healthcare Now. An activist blog supporting single payer healthcare
- States Moving Towards Comprehensive Health Care Reform in the U.S., The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
- The Case For Single Payer, Universal Health Care For The United States
- The Socialists Are Coming! The Socialists Are Coming! by Phillip Boffey. Editorial on U.S. "socialized medicine" in the military, the Veterans Health Administration, and Medicare, The New York Times, September 28, 2007.
- Whither a health-care solution? Oh Canada BusinessWeek, March 21, 1994 by William C. Symonds, article in a business journal writing favorably about single payer.
FAQ and summaries by NGO's favoring single payer
- Get the Facts on Health Care Reform Single-payer solution myths and facts from Public Citizen.
- Report Card on Single-Payer and Public Option from PDA and Healthcare-now comparing, contrasting, and grading the two proposals.
- Single-Payer Myths; Single-Payer Facts summary from PNHP.
- What is Single-Payer Healthcare? from Healthcare-Now.org (expanded from PNHP with additional information)
Single-payer system+issues
Proposals for a single-payer system in the United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_health_care#Proposals_for_a_single-payer_system_in_the_United_States
Single-payer system+other
related articles on wikipedia:
- Health care compared - tabular comparisons of the US, Canada, and other countries not shown above.
- Health care reform debate in the United States
- Kucinich Amendment to Health Care Bill HR 3200 grants states rights to single payer health care at the state level.
- National health insurance
- Publicly-funded health care
- Public opinion on health care reform in the United States

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