Financing and Administration

The League favors a national health insurance plan financed through general taxes in place of individual insurance premiums. As the United States moves toward a national health insurance plan, an employer-based system of health care reform that provides universal access is acceptable to the League. The League supports administration of the US healthcare system either by a combination of the private and public sectors or by a combination of federal, state, and/or regional government agencies.

The League supports the single-payer concept as a viable and desirable approach to implementing League positions on equitable access, affordability, and financial feasibility. In any proposed health care financing system, the League favors health insurance access independent of employment status.

Although the League prefers a health care financing system that includes all residents of the United States, in the absence of a federal program that achieves the goals of universal, affordable access to essential health services, the League supports health care programs financed by states which include continuation of federal funding and comply with League principles. 

The League is opposed to a strictly private market-based model of financing the health care system. The League is also opposed to the administration of the healthcare system solely by the private sector or the states.