Abstract
Several leading health policy staff of the AFL-CIO and major unions met with the Board of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) in May 1990. They described the active discussions currently ongoing within the AFL-CIO Health Care Committee, which is composed of 14 international union presidents and sets AFL-CIO policy on health care issues. Some union presidents reportedly favored a single-payer, Canadian-style approach, while others apparently preferred a proposal modeled after the West German system, which preserves a major role for insurance companies. The PNHP Board was emphatic in its preference for the single-payer approach. Board member Dr. Vicente Navarro wrote the following letter to the union presidents on the AFL-CIO Health Care Committee detailing his critique of the West German approach.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 565-571 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | International Journal of Health Services |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - Jan 1 1991 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Policy