If you're an avid news watcher who pays close attention to mainstream media coverage of health-care issues in the political arena, you probably haven't seen much mention of the "single payer" option.
Also known as "Medicare for all," single payer would mean publicly funded, privately delivered health care for everyone. The government would foot the bill, treating health care as a human right. What a concept!
Evidently, that's too heavy a concept to be in gene ...
Posted by: michael nola
Comment: #1
Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:57 PM
Insurance should be limited to life and property; health care should be a national right and could be easily afforded if we gave up the pretense of world hegemony through military dominance. I'm longing for the day when a national politician calls for single payer health care and simultaneously calls on Americans to take upon themselves the individual responsibility of healthier lifestyles through proper nutrition and exercise. Doing so would cut short conservative whining about such programs being contrary to America's individual respnsibility ethos and, because it would result in a healthier population, a decrease in health care costs.
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