The Single-Payer Action Network Ohio (SPAN Ohio) is a statewide coalition of organizations and individuals in Ohio seeking fundamental health care reform in our state and country so that every resident is guaranteed full and comprehensive coverage.
We advocate the establishment of a public fund that would pay all health care bills without co-payments or deductibles. Funding would come from the savings realized by eliminating the administrative waste and profits of the 1,500 private insurance companies and HMOs, savings from greater utilization of preventive medicine, and from additional mechanisms deemed necessary to ensure that the public fund has the necessary financial resources, with adequate reserves. The plan we call for is known as a single-payer health care system.
Comments: SPAN Summit County is a group of SPAN supporters engaged in grassroots activism and public education.
SPAN Summit members advocate a reform of the present healthcare delivery system so that all Ohio citizens will be fully covered for preventive healthcare, and management of acute and chronic illnesses.
For fiscal year of 2008, more than 70,000 people in the City of Akron alone could be provided with health care for the amount of money being spent on the war.
Members of SPAN Summit work towards a goal of Ohioans united in their values that focus on Health care, not Warfare.
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