A single payer health insurance system must be instituted in the US that would solve several problems at once, including affordability and the problem of HMO influence in medical decision making.
Why is this important?
Other developed countries watch our health care debate and shake their heads. Most of them have cradle to grave coverage based on the reduced costs that single payer insurance provides. Health, like energy and democracy should not be cash cows for corporations. So called "Obama Care" merely hands the HMO's more customers. It does not reduce costs or allow citizens and doctors to make health care decisions.
