Now he’s teamed up with Health Care for All-Oregon and the state chapters of Physicians for a National Health Program and the Main Street Alliance for a six-city swing through Oregon, including a stop next week in Corvallis.

On Wednesday, Master will meet for lunch with a group of local business leaders and elected officials, then host free public screenings of “Fix It” at 6 and 7:30 p.m. at the Darkside Cinema, 215 S.W. Fourth St. Each showing of the film will be followed by a discussion.

A single-payer system as envisioned by Master would use individual and employer taxes to cover all medically necessary care through the current private delivery system. By eliminating the administrative burden of multipayer billing and allowing the government to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, he argues, Americans could slash about $500 billion a year from a national health care bill that currently runs to $3 trillion annually.

It’s an approach that’s already providing better outcomes at much lower costs in other developed nations such as Canada, Germany and France.

“The U.S. really is the anomaly,” he said. “We are the outlier, and the rest of the industrialized world is following a different model, a much more efficient model, and that is single payer.”