BIG PICTURE COMPARISON

BIG PICTURE COMPARISON
Single-payer Health Care Revolution

CURRENT

CALTCHA

Universal fear and insecurity with more than 30% without useful coverage in CA Universal peace of mind and security with a smart ID card CA access
Medical illness, income-based, service model Public health and wellbeing, society-wide care model
Narrow doctor network and changing providers Free Choice of any CA licensed health provider
Consistent experience of care denial Comprehensive health and dental care guaranteed
$11,000 per person average cost plus copays and deductibles –expanding privatization & surprise billing (Cadillac to junk-yard care) No out of pocket costs, premiums, or co-pays with a small public tax coverage system for top tier care for all
Over 20% wasted overhead and administrative costs Less than 5% overhead and administrative costs - $ Billions saved!
Long Term Care, poverty required, institutional segregation Life Time care individual planning, no segregation.
Major medical, dental, and nursing student tuition cost and debt All post-secondary Health care education student tuition & cost-free; larger, diverse health workforce
Class, caste, language, and race bias lead to health disparities among marginalized communities System designed centered with a focus on social determinants of health and community input
Hard to access hospital empires, with health service deserts everywhere Local decentralized health care settings with home and neighborhood services everywhere
Token, uncoordinated, underfunded, or absent services Customized school, mental health, disability, agricultural, incarceration service models
Corporation owned and ruthless profit; Medical wealth transfer tyranny The public (people) and Public Health will own and decide the care model with democratic participation and planning
Job lock with mind-numbing work for micro coverage End “job lock” and expand the entrepreneurial economy
41 million unpaid family caregivers of dependent loved ones Liberate and support millions of unfunded caregivers
Millions of unnecessary administration workers ‘A Just transition’ with salary and benefits over 5 years for non-clinical workforce
$80 billion personal and family medical debt burden Buy out all personal and family medical debt
Everything else that hurts and humiliates you Everything else we forgot