CSEA’s core principles on health care reform

CSEA believes the single payer plan best fits our value system because it best adheres to CSEA’s core principles on health care reform:

1. Every worker must have access to affordable health care (including part-time employees)
2. Workers in collective bargaining agreements must be included.
3. Cost controls must be part of the solution. Otherwise, it leaves workers exposed to continued price increases and cost shifting.
4. Any solution must provide and adequate level of coverage. CSEA opposes Health Savings Accounts or other bare bones plans that don’t provide quality care.
   
   The Kuehl proposal (SB 840): A true single payer system that would provide comprehensive, quality health coverage including: doctor, hospital, long-term care, mental health, dental vision, prescription drug and medical supply costs. Patients would regain free choice of doctor and hospital, and doctors would regain autonomy over patient care...More

   The Nuñez Proposal: A plan that would require all businesses with two or more employees to offer health insurance and it would expand government responsibility to at minimum cover all uninsured children.

   The Perata proposal: This plan would give employers the choice of either providing health insurance as they do now, or contributing to a purchasing pool established by the state.

   The Schwarzenegger Proposal: Would provide coverage for all uninsured children, and mandate that all Californians own some form of health insurance (similar to the requirement that motorists carry automobile insurance).

   Learn more about all of the proposals. We trust you to read and think critically. This issue is complex and challenging.