AB1400

3/15/21

Support Single-Payer Universal Health Care

Today’s U.S. health care system is a complex, fragmented multi-payer system that still leaves wide gaps of coverage and poses significant issues of affordability. Despite health care spending in the U.S. far exceeding other high- income, industrialized countries that offer a publically financed single-payer system, we consistently report worse health outcomes and disparities among vulnerable populations.

AB 1400 sets in motion a single-payer health care coverage system in California, called Cal- Care, for all residents, regardless of citizenship status. By streamlining payments and lowering per-capita health care spending, CalCare guar- antees quality health care and long-term care without creating barriers to care or out- of-pocket costs.

By affirming health care as a right to all Cali- fornians and establishing a payment system that eliminates waste and aligns reimburse- ments with the actual cost of care, we can make significant progress on financing and acquiring state and federal approvals.

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