Resolution A
A Resolution in Support of a Single-Payer Health Care System
Whereas, it is estimated that thirty (30) million Americans are without health insurance and,
Whereas, according to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the United States is the “only wealth, industrialized nation that does not ensure that all citizens have coverage” and,
Whereas, it is estimated that Canada’s single-payer health care system has forty-three (43) percent lower administrative costs compared to those of the United States’ private insurance companies and,
Whereas, the United States already provides substantial social services to its citizens and,
Whereas, primary, preventive health care for all will keep the public as a whole healthier by slowing the spread of communicable diseases and,
Whereas, the Federal Government already provides Medicaid and Medicare health insurance to the impoverished and elderly with a great degree of success and,
Whereas, four industrialized nations with a single-payer system, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Taiwan have, on average, a life expectancy of seventy-nine and ninety-six one hundredths (79.96) years as opposed to the United States’ life expectancy of seventy-eight and eleven one hundredths (78.11) years and,
Whereas, fifty-nine (59) percent of physicians in the United States support a single-payer health care system according to a recent study in the Annals of Internal Medicine; therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, by the Student Congress here assembled, that the United States adopt a single-payer, universal health care system.
I so move.
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