My family prefers a single-payer option for health coverage: Make it Medicare for everyone. Medicare works very well. Without competition, health-care costs from private insurers will continue to escalate. We do not want restrictions on women’s health care. Tax the wealthier citizens. If this cannot be included in the legislation, just scrap the bill and start over. The American people want this and are tired of not being represented because so many members of the U.S. Congress and Senate have been bought off by the health-care industry
This article appears in Dec 31, 2009 – Jan 7, 2010.