Liberty, justice, and one-payer for all

Bravo Paul Krugman and Robin Wells in their New York Review of Books critique of what's wrong with America's free market, free enterprise, out-of-control health care system. In a word, inefficiency. Or three words, sky high costs. They have a chart showing the US inferior to Canada, France, and the UK in salient health indicators (e.g.,infant mortality, longevity). Yet US costs are almost double those of France, and much higher than each of the others. Krugman and Wells bank on a single-payer system to solve many of our health woes.

I wish the American people would take up arms against the insurance companies and Big Pharma to call for a single-payer health care system. Medicare for all: simple, effective, efficient.

Ask your grandmother how well Medicare works for her. Harry and Louise should be eligible for Medicare by now. I'd bet they've changed their minds, so maybe we should bring 'em on again.