No one that I am aware of has been pushing for SOCIALIZED medicine here, with the government seizing ownership of all doctor's practices and hospitals and making them all government employees. Yes, that is the experiment that Canada and Great Britian (and a few other nations) have tried ... and even THAT seems by any measure to provide ALL citizens with access to healthcare at least as good as ours.


No, what we long for is a far simpler fix, one that displaces hundreds of insurance companies operating thousand of plans with literally MILLIONS of pages of arcane rules ... with a single payer, a Medicare-like entity to pay the bills. Our vaunted hospitals, public and private, remain exactly the same. Our doctors remain private contractors in private practice. Our research hospitals and pharmaceutical companies proceed exactly as before. The ONLY change is the slashing of all of that red tape, the disassembly of all of that bloated and insanely expensive for-profit insurance system that is bleeding us WHITE and making our products uncompetitive on the world market.


Nothing else changes. Nothing. Rich people will STILL be able to get private physicians and go to insanely expensive hotel-like private clinics. The REST of us will simply be able to go to the doctor when we are sick or the hospital when he refers us there ... and never see a bill. By the measure of the rest of the world, this costs anywhere from a third to a half of what we are now spending, and provides quality universal care FOR EACH AND EVERY CITIZEN AS A BIRTHRIGHT.


Is there some problem with treating EVERYONE - even if it only costs half as much?