What Single-Payer Provides

• All medically necessary care (services) from prenatal to end of life
  • Pending the results of the legislative process, benefits will include the following details, as listed in the proposed U.S. House Resolution 676:
    • Primary care and prevention
    • Inpatient care
    • Outpatient care
    • Emergency care
    • Prescription drugs
    • Durable medical equipment
    • Long term care
    • Mental health services
    • The full scope of dental services (other than cosmetic dentistry)
    • Substance abuse treatment services
    • Chiropractic services
    • Basic vision care and vision correction (other than laser vision correction for cosmetic purposes)
    • Hearing services, including coverage of hearing aids
• Health Care for All without question.
  • Everybody In. Nobody Out.
• Better health outcomes for the average U.S. citizen
  • Better preventive care because everyone has access to care.
  • Better care, in general, because everyone has the same health care coverage, and most citizens will have more health care benefits than they had in the past.
• Simplicity and efficiency for the collection of contributions to the national health insurance fund and for the payment for services from the national health insurance fund.
• Best types of choices
  • See Comparison for details of medical and lifestyle choices that provide freedom to choose.
  • … and the freedom of NOT being required to do a yearly selection of for-profit health insurance options