Affordable Health Care

What if everyone had affordable health care, and we saved billions by eliminating bureaucracy and overpricing?

Our current health care system is not affordable and is not delivering the health care we need.  It’s time to act to provide affordable, quality health coverage to all our citizens – without the Massachusetts mandate that forces people to buy expensive, stripped down plans that don’t protect health or financial security when real illness strikes.

There is a proven way to achieve all this while saving billions of dollars.  It involves a Medicare-for-all system that pays for itself simply by cutting out the insurance company red tape.  (It’s sometimes called “single-payer,” which means that all bills go to a single processing point — eliminating the costly and complex billing system required to submit claims to multiple private insurance providers, each following different rules).

The single-payer system gives the government a tool to negotiate the lowest possible prices from pharmaceutical companies (which is why pharmaceutical company lobbyists are fighting it).

Under single-payer,  no one loses health insurance when they change jobs.  And our health dollars are spent on better health care — not on insurance company red tape.

The single-payer system is proven. It is being used by almost every developed country in the world.  It’s time the people of Massachusetts stopped getting overcharged for pharmaceuticals and stopped worrying about how to get health insurance.

Jill Stein supports legislation that will move Massachusetts toward a single-payer health insurance system, based on the Medicare model.  This will cover everyone and save us money.