Obama says that if he were starting from scratch he would design a single-payer system
The part that blows me away :
Obama’s current plan for health care aims to provide universal coverage by offering a new government-run marketplace in which Americans could buy insurance, mostly from private companies
We pretty much have that now without being government-run, it’s called picking up the phone and calling to get health insurance.
Continuing :
His new marketplace would create a new government-run plan, like Medicare, to compete against the private plans.
Would that be the Medicare that is scheduled to blow up bigger and sooner than Social (In)Security?
Take a look at the Tenncare system on which a national system was supposed to be based : cost overruns, people losing prescription coverage, doctors going out of practice, etc… Yeah, let’s take this national
