HEARING OF THE HEALTH, EMPLOYMENT, LABOR AND PENSIONS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE EDUCATION AND LABOR COMMITTEE SUBJECT: EXAMINING THE SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE OPTION CHAIRED BY: REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT ANDREWS (D-NJ) WITNESSES: REPRESENTATIVE JOHN CONYERS (D-MI); DR. MARCIA ANGELL, SENIOR LECTURER IN SOCIAL MEDICINE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL; DAVID GRATZER, SENIOR FELLOW, MANHATTAN INSTITUTE;... (Part 10).
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HEARING OF THE HEALTH, EMPLOYMENT, LABOR AND PENSIONS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE EDUCATION AND LABOR COMMITTEE SUBJECT: EXAMINING THE SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE OPTION CHAIRED BY: REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT ANDREWS (D-NJ) WITNESSES: REPRESENTATIVE JOHN CONYERS (D-MI); DR. MARCIA ANGELL, SENIOR LECTURER IN SOCIAL MEDICINE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL; DAVID GRATZER, SENIOR FELLOW, MANHATTAN INSTITUTE; GERI JENKINS, CO-PRESIDENT, CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION/ NATIONAL NURSES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE; DR. WALTER TSOU, NATIONAL BOARD ADVISOR, PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM; LOCATION: 2175 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING TIME: 10:30 A.M. EDT DATE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2009(Part 10)
I was impressed by an article that I read earlier this year by Dr. Atul Gawande in The New Yorker where he looked at other countries and how they got to their universal coverage. For example, Britain created the National Health Service based on the wartime health system, and France created a system based on a pre-war independent local insurance program.
Single-payer systems have some advantages. Have you thought about how we could get to that, if you see that as the ideal, from -- DR. ANGELL: Yes, I -- REP. HOLT: -- our fragmented system of today?
DR. ANGELL: Yes, I have. And, in fact, I was on the writing committee that published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, August 13th, 2003, that goes through how we would convert, in considerable detail.
There's no time to do that here, obviously, but I would -- REP. HOLT: Could I ask that you...
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