Guaranteed Healthcare

Survey research suggests that, while Americans are overwhelmingly supportive of health-care reform, they are not sure the reform cobbled together by President Obama and the last Congress is the proper fix. According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, the country is divided three ways [1]: 33 percent for complete repeal of the measure adopted last year, 35 percent for partial repeal and 30 percent for no repeal. 

President Obama and congressional leaders have arrived at one early conclusion for health reform: single payer proposals are off the table. Despite single payer bills pending in Congress and state legislatures, and opinion polls showing significant support from the public as well as doctors and nurses, a serious discussion of a single payer model has not taken place. NESRI’s new human rights analysis of single payer plans seeks to encourage such a discussion, and shows why single-payer plans are superior to market-based proposals in moving us closer to a health care system based on human rights.

Read the human rights assessment of single payer plans here:

http://www.nesri.org/Single_Payer_Human_Rights_Analysis.pdf

Despite presidential forums, committee hearings and advertising campaigns, we're no closer to meaningful reform measures that would meet human rights standards and fulfill our human right to health care.  To hold health care reformers accountable for delivering universal, equitable health care that meets human rights standards, the Human Right to Health Program, run by the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), has published ten principles for financing health care. Go to http://ww.nesri.org/ or download directly http://www.nesri.org/Human_Rights_Principles_for_Financing_Health_Care.pdf