From The New York Review of Books, June 7, 2012
"[Some dismiss] a single-payer system as unrealistic, saying it would be “politically impossible in the United States now, or in the foreseeable future.” … what is truly unrealistic is imagining that we can provide universal and affordable health care in a market-based system."
Also, "My objection to the mandate is not that it requires people to purchase insurance, but that it specifies they buy it from investor-owned companies, whose practices have done much to make our health care system the "unjust and expensive shambles" [it is today]."
Thanks, Marcia Angell, for putting it so well.
http://bit.ly/angell-quote
