A single-payer healthcare system has major implications for insurance brokers nationwide. The Council opposes the idea as it threatens the employer-provided benefits market on a national scale and would result in other potentially damaging effects with regard to group benefits, jobs and taxation.
Single payer healthcare is a government-run healthcare system in which the state, financed by taxes, covers basic healthcare costs for all residents regardless of income, occupation, or health status. Single payer is commonly referred to as “Medicare for all.”
The continued healthcare debate at the national level has rekindled calls for a single-payer system among some states. View our state tracking chart here.
This page is intended to keep you informed of the single payer debate. Our state tracking chart will be updated frequently, and we will continue to add news articles from around the country.
From Leader’s Edge Magazine
States Debate Single-Payer
Harbinger or Passing Storm?
Senate Republicans released their Better Care Reconciliation Act, which leaves the employer/employee tax “exclusion” on group health benefits untouched, but perpetuates an ongoing fight around subsidies and Medicaid. Read more.
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This ACA Reform Legislation Tracker was updated as of December 22, by our legal team at Steptoe & Johnson.
The Council filed a letter with the Department of Labor regarding the DOL’s proposed rule to revise the definition of “employer” under section 3(5) of ERISA.
We have updated our state-by-state Single-Payer/Universal Healthcare Legislation Tracker as of January 24.
We have updated our state-by-state Drug Price Transparency Legislation Tracker as of November 13.
The Council, along with 35 other business organizations, sent this letter to Congress asking for a delay in the 40 percent “Cadillac Tax” on employer-sponsored health coverage before the end of this year.