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Health Care Options Project
The State of California's recent health care study, the Health Care Options Project (HCOP), conducted by the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHS), demonstrated that a publicly funded and administered universal health insurance program (also knows as single payer) will save billions of health care dollars and provide the necessary funding for universal health care.
Delivery of health care services would still be provided as it currently is through both public and private providers.
California can afford full benefits to all residents by replacing inefficient multiple insurance company health plans with a single efficient publicly administered plan for everyone.
“Under all of the plans here, there is an increase in costs, reflecting the fact that you'd have more insured people using more health services…. But …under the single payer program, we show that there is a net reduction in spending. We actually spend less, in the aggregate, on health care. The reason for this is that there are very large administrative savings that are realized through using a simple, single program to pay for health care. There are also some bulk purchasing savings which we believe could be quite substantial.” - John Sheils, The Lewin Group. Concluding remarks on the micro-simulation of the nine health care reform proposals, Healthcare Options Symposium, Sacramento, April 12, 2002
Documents posted by CHHS about HCOP are available at
http://www.healthcareoptions.ca.govHCOP Study Background Archive
California Universal Health Insurance Coverage Study (CUHICS)
The Universal Health Coverage Study: Background, Overview and Update
Study Options
Universal Health Care Technical Advisory Committee - (UHCTAC): Recommendations by Subject
HCA Recommendations Regarding Study
