Is ACP proposing a single-payer system?
Not exclusively. Instead we are proposing that all residents in the United States have guaranteed health insurance coverage, and suggest that this can be achieved either through a single payer system or a pluralistic system with guaranteed coverage. ACP’s analysis clearly shows that our country’s current pluralistic health care system without universal health care coverage puts us behind other countries. We hope to accomplish three things. One is to try to persuade the public and policymakers that the status quo is unacceptable. The second is to stimulate a public debate about the strengths and weaknesses of the two considerations we put forward – a pluralistic system with guaranteed coverage or a single-payer system – to achieve a higher performing, more equitable, and more efficient health care system And the third is to make it clear that even if health care coverage was provided to all Americans— either through a single payer system or a pluralistic model with guaranteed coverage—f
