SINGLE PAYER ACTION

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February 29, 2012

ECONOMIST SAYS PASS SINGLE PAYER IN MARYLAND, SAVE CASH

Filed under: News — russell @ 4:54 pm

A publicly financed, single-payer health plan modeled on a bill currently pending in the Maryland Legislature, S.B. 206, would assure quality, comprehensive care to everyone in the state without increasing overall health spending.

That’s according to a new report released this week by Gerald Friedman, Ph.D., an economist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Friedman says that by replacing private health insurers in Maryland with a single social insurance trust – a fund that would pay all medical bills, much like Medicare does – Maryland would save $13.2 billion in 2013, enough to pay for truly universal, quality health care.