[GPSCC-chat] Amy Goodman: Single-Payer Prescription for What Ails Obamacare

[Brian]

The for-profit health-insurance industry in the United States is 
profoundly inefficient and costly, and a sane and sustainable 
alternative exists—single-payer, otherwise known as expanded and 
improved Medicare for all. Just change the age of eligibility from 65 to
 zero.
“When Medicare was rolled out in 1966, it was rolled out in six 
months using index cards,” Dr. Steffie Woolhandler told me Monday. . . .

What is single-payer? Critics denounce it as “socialized medicine,” 
while ignoring that single-payer is already immensely popular in the 
U.S., as Medicare. A 2011 Harris poll found that Medicare enjoyed 88 
percent support from American adults . . . .

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/10/10/single_payer_prescription_for_what_ails_obamacare
 		 	   		  
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