252930 From Multi-payer to Single-payer: What Role for the States?

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 1:30 PM

Oliver Fein, MD , Clinical Medicine and Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
     
Over the last year, concerns over the limitations of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P-PACA) and political developments in states like Vermont and California have intensified interest in states' efforts to provide universal, publicly financed health insurance. In September 2011, the Milbank Memorial Fund supported an innovative consultation among state legislators interested in single payer health reform and health policy experts. Discussion focused on four themes: 1) Single payer system design issues; 2) Financing state-based single payer health; 3) From multi-payer to single payer – transition issues; 4) Grassroots and coalition building. This presentation will report on this first-of-its-kind meeting, designed to provide a forum for state legislators and policy experts to share ideas on how to structure and operate state single-payer systems.

Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health education
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Compare states with reform efforts to create state based single payer health insurance and analyze how these efforts fit into the broader national effort to establish a national health insurance program for the United States.

Keywords: Health Reform, Health Activism

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Past President of PNHP and frequent speaker on health reform across the nation,
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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