1. SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE Saves money, saves lives!

2. Dr Bill Honigman, drbillhonigman@gmail.com Full time ER physician Orange County over 30 years Board Certified Emergency Medicine Long Time activist and volunteer for many local and regional community groups Campaign for a Healthy California, Steering Committee Member, OC Region Co- coordinator

3. Savings to Employer Groups Calif SB 921 April 2004

4. SINGLE PAYER: Saves money, saves lives! June 2009, City of Santa Monica studies savings under US HR 676, est. $6 million per year http://www.mckeown.net/Universal_Single-payer_Healthcare_- _Santa_Monica_Councilmember_Kevin_McKeown.html May 2011, Vermont legislature passes and governor signs Green Mountain Care, est. savings $500 million per year http://www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/healthcare/Hsiao%20Proposal%20-%20public.pdf

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6. The Uninsured

8. 18,314 Adult Deaths Annually Due to Uninsurance

9. Financial Suffering Among the INSURED or UNDERINSURED

13. Rationing Amidst a Surplus of Care or THE COST OF CARE

14. Half of Americans Live Where Population Is Too Low for Competition Source: NEJM 1993;328:148 A town’s only hospital will not compete with itself

21. High Deductible Insurance: Except for the Healthy and Wealthy, It’s Unwise

24. MANDATE MODEL: Keeping Private Insurers In Charge

25. “Mandate” Model for Reform Proposed by Richard Nixon in 1971 to block Edward Kennedy’s NHI proposal

26. “Mandate” Model for Reform Government uses its coercive power to make people buy private insurance.

27. “Mandate” Model - Problems Absent cost controls, expanded coverage unaffordable Computers, care management, prevention not shown to cut costs Adds administrative complexity and cost; retains wasteful private insurers Impeccable political logic, economic nonsense

28. The U.S. Trails Other Nations

36. Canada’s National Health Insurance Program

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