1. Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP) Surprising Statistics Supporting Single Payer!

2. Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdEPeLUZA XYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdEPeLUZA XY (2:21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdEPeLUZA XY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9x4cRWqP PMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9x4cRWqP PM (1:56) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9x4cRWqP PM

3. Taxpayers are already paying for it! America devotes 17% of GDP to health care, compared with 9% in Britain. Government health spending per head in 2012, before the ACA’s main provisions took effect, was 50% higher than in Britain, which has a nationalized health system. (The Economist Magazine)

4. Americans Cannot Afford our Healthcare System In 2013 there were 42 million uninsured individuals in the US. In 2025, 27 million people are projected to remain uninsured (Congressional Budget office) 39 million adults were underinsured in 2014 (out of pocket expenses >10% of income, deductible >5% of income. Underinsurance has increased following the ACA, up to 21% in 2014 from 16% in 2010 (Commonwealth Fund).

5. DOING HARM 42,000 deaths were associated with lack of insurance in 2013. That is 1 death every 12 minutes. (American Journal of Public Health) 62% of all personal bankruptcies in the US are due to medical bills or illness 75% of those bankrupted had health insurance before becoming ill (American Journal of Medicine) 1 of 8 Americans with private coverage faced major financial hardships attributable to healthcare costs (AP- NORDC)

6. Where does the Money Go? 31% of healthcare dollars are spent on administration. Medicare’s overhead was 1.6% in 2013. (NEJM) CEOs of the the 6 largest healthcare firms made $157.9 million in 2014: -UnitedHealth Group: Stephen Hemsley: $66.1 million/ $254,328 per day

7. The Commonwealth Fund’s 2014 report

8. Went without care last year because of cost

9. Health Spending per person

10. Waited six days or more days to see a doctor or nurse the last time medical attention was needed

11. Visited an emergency room for a condition that could have been treated by a regular doctor.

12. Potentially preventable death rate per (100,000)

13. Infant death rate (per 100,000 live births)

14. Life Expectancy

15. THE SOLUTION Medicare works! Americans with Medicare are happier than those with private insurance A single payer Medicare for all system would change ONLY THE FINANCING of care. It would be transparent and publicly accountable. It would take the “middleman” out of the doctor/ patient relationship. Polls show that this approach has the support of 2/3 or the population.

16. “The Expanded and Improved Medicare for all Act” : HR 676 1.Simple, universal enrollment (cut admin. Costs) 2.Provision of comprehensive services, all necessary medical provision and drugs 3.Allow free choice of doctor and hospital 4.Eliminate co- payments and deductibles

17. “The Expanded and Improved Medicare for all Act” : HR 676 5. Create a public, nonprofit agency to pay all bills 6. Finance care through progressive taxation 7. Reduce burden of health care costs on businesses 8. NOT pay more than we are now– thanks to $400 billion in administrative savings 9. Provide cost control tools like bulk purchasing and global budgeting for long term, sustainable saving.

18. Further Information www.pnhp.org/sites/default/files/case_for_medicare_ for_all_2015.pdf http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund -reports/2014/jun/mirror-mirror http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund -reports/2014/jun/mirror-mirror Sept. 20, 2014 “How to Fix Obamacare” The Economist The Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act,” H.R. 676

19. Questions? – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single-payer-faq