Here's a detailed, comprehensive plan for national health insurance, and it's written by physicians, not by politicians or insurance companies. I think anyone could get behind a candidate who endorsed this plan. It even takes care of private insurance employees who would be displaced by a single-payer system.

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Carole Borges's picture

Looks good, but I'm sure much debate will ensue

That's a good thing. I like the fact that doctors created the plan (though as a whole I tend to think of doctors as greedy rather than purely humanitarian). I'm still not sure what it will mean to small business owners, a group I feel very supportive of. Ever since the ridiculous switch over to the choose-your-own-plan thing, I've felt it put a burden on seniors. I have an excellent broker who got me the coverage I wanted at a price I could afford. It didn't matter to him which plan I chose as he was paid equally for enrolling me in any plan. I'm not clear who paid his fee though, and I thought having to get a broker in order to choose the right plan showed right away the system was flawed.

Universal care, socialized medicine, a national health plan, call it what you will, it is inevitable and might help bring our country's healthcare back to a place where we were on a par with other developed nations.

jbarker's picture

indeed....

we need a more rational system of health care, one that recognizes that there too much health care and that the excess must be reduced on a fair and equitable basis.

has anyone heard from dr. jack recently?

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