Re: response to Fitch on single-payer
Nathan Newman wrote:
Honest single payer advocates to this day admit that this is a big drawback to single payer. See the California HealthCare Foundation site here: http://www.chcf.org/topics/healthinsurance/coverageexpansion/index.cfm?itemID=105322&model=single_payer
“By generally accepted standards of fairness, the single-payer approach rates high in terms of providing access to coverage. This approach achieves universal coverage without requiring anyone to pay premiums, with the important exception that it does not cover undocumented immigrants. “
Why the hell would SEIU or any other union where a reasonably large chunk of their membership is undocumented sign onto a program guaranteed to scew those members?
Is SEIU supposed to say to those members– Sucks to be you, but we’re trading off your health care plan for a government one that will exclude you and probably lead to the end of most available care at hospitals and clinics?
This is from Physicians for a National Health Plan:
Our universal single-payer health care legislation in California (SB840-Kuehl) includes the undocumented…..
Our universal single-payer health care legislation in California (SB840-Kuehl) covers abortion services…..
SEIU endorses SB840-Kuehl