Putting health back into healthcare.

Putting health back into healthcare. Kevin Drum summarizes the five main arguments for single-payer universal healthcare. Here's a digest of his full argument:

1. Single-payer is a simple plan that can be explained in short, compelling phrases.
2. It's good policy.
3. It gives Democrats a branding tool.
4. The political landscape is slowly moving in our favor.
5. It's possible to win this battle.

Case closed as far as I'm concerned. If we had passed even a flawed Hillarycare system in 1994, we would have had a dozen years to work out all the kinks by now.

Meanwhile, I'm paying $12,000 a year out of pocket for a fucked-up Blue Cross HMO in which it takes a week to have an orthopedic specialist look at my wife's fractured arm.