Talk:United States National Health Insurance Act

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[edit] Rename article

Proposal: This article should be re-named United States National Health Insurance Bill. The content may need slight rewording. An act is not created until a bill passes through congress and has presidential approval.--Tom 22:04, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

It may be a bill, but the title of the bill is "United States National Health Insurance Act (or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act)". 199.125.109.65 18:26, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Acording to the article there is a smilarly named bill to this that's not quite as all-encomposing, so I think this article should be "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act" to keep them more clearly seperated. Jon 16:59, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

No. The name that this bill is known by is US National Health Insurance Act. There are no sponsors for the other bill, so it isn't very well known anyway, and it definitely doesn't fit the notability criteria to have it's own article. It is included here for clarification just in case someone does a search for "National Health Insurance". 199.125.109.109 21:35, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ubiquity of Single Payer

"The act calls for the creation of a universal single-payer health care system in the United States, the rough equivalent of the United Kingdom's National Health Service and other similar systems in existence in every other industrialized nation; in which the government would provide every resident health care free of out-of-pocket expense, funded instead through U.S. federal taxes."

No "other industrialized nation" besides Canada outlaws private health insurance, so really only Canada has single payer. Mordac (talk) 19:13, 3 July 2009 (UTC)