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The MNA Supports
Single Payer Health Care
This means that
the MNA supports a bill in the state legislature, S.755, the Massachusetts
Health
Care Trust which would establish a universal single payer health care system
for all Massachusetts residents.
Why do
we have health care only for those who can afford it?
The United States
is the only industrialized country in the world that does not provide health
care for all its citizens.
Yet we pay a third
more per capita for health care than any other nation. And we get far less for
our money in terms of service and health outcomes on a national basis.
"Health
care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity,
and
there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person
be able to realize this right"
-Joseph
Cardinal Bernardin
Pastoral
Letter on Healthcare
October,
1995
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Did you know?
- Since 1970,
the number of health care administrators has increased 23 times faster than
the number of doctors and nurses. Source: Bleeding the Patient (See
Related Resources).
- About two-thirds
of uninsured adults reside in households with at least one full time worker.
Source: The Urban Institute, research results released May 18, 2000.
- As part of
the law regulating managed care in the commonwealth, the Legislature established
a 32-member advisory committee
“to evaluate an independent analysis of the feasibility and fiscal implications
of establishing a system of consolidated health care financing and streamlined
health care delivery model accessible to every resident of the commonwealth.”
MNA will be represented on this Committee by Judith Shindul-Rothschild, R.N.,
PhD. of Boston College, a nurse researcher and economist and a powerful advocate
for single payer reform.
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