SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- Supporters of single-payer health insurance staged a huge rally outside San Francisco's Moscone Center Thursday afternoon, surrounding a national convention of insurance company executives.
Thousands of people lined up along Fourth and Howard Streets for the lively rally in favor of cutting the insurance companies out of the system.
"The majority of Americans want a single-payer health care system like Medicare expanded for all. We just want to make sure that the politicians, and the people that make those decisions know that that is what we want," said Geri Jenkins, with the California Nurses Association.
She says we're clinging to a broken system with skyrocketing costs, while every other major Western country has national health.
"They get way more bang for their buck than we do," said Jenkins. "We spend twice as much money as any other country in the world, and have worse outcomes than any other industrialized country in the world."
But inside the convention of America's Health Insurance Plans, the trade association for the insurers, spokesman Mike Tuffin says the U.S. would not benefit from government control of health care.
"In other countries that have done this the quality of care goes down. In Canada you wait longer, you have poorer quality of care, you don't have access to the same technology that you have in the states," said Tuffin.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- Supporters of single-payer health insurance staged a huge rally outside San Francisco's Moscone Center Thursday afternoon, surrounding a national convention of insurance company executives.
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