U.S. health insurance industry “dying”, says UW professor in video comment

 The $300 billion U.S. health-insurance industry is dying and should be replaced with a cheaper, more efficient, and equitable single-payer system, says Dr. John Geyman, professor emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Washington, in a video commentary on the online medical journal MedScape.

Premiums are unaffordable, millions go without coverage, and often those with coverage find it inadequate, Dr. Geyman says.

The solution is at hand, Dr. Geyman says, embodied in a bill under consideration in Congress (H.R. 676), which would establish a Government-financed single-payer system that would provide coverage to all Americans. 

To learn more:

• Watch Dr.Geyman’s MedScape video commentary.
• Read about H.R. 676 on the Web site of Healthcare-Now, an advocacy group.
• Visit the Northwest Chapter of the Physicians for a National Health Program, a physicians’ group supporting single-payer health-care reform

Tags: H.R. 676, Health Insurance, Health-care Reform, Single-payer

Category: Health-care Policy