Single payer.

Editor,

Adversaries with a vested interest in the bloated profits of "health insurance" corporations throw around words like "socialized medicine" and "government run health care" as if these words actually mean something.

Everyone who buys health insurance knows that single payer is neither of the above -- it is a health insurance program that covers every citizen the premiums for which are an item in the federal budget.

Single payer does not deliver health care. It provides health insurance. Why is Barack not educating the public on this point and pushing full throttle on the only health insurance solution that makes any sense at all: single payer?

re: "A Public Plan for Health Insurance?" (4/7/2009)