Single Payer

The question most frequently asked by progressive activists at last week’s America’s Future Now conference was this: We hear Obama and congressional Democrats talking about a public health insurance option, but why aren’t they talking about a single-payer system like H.R. more »

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Of course, the plan Kennedy refers to in his recent Washington Post article is one like that proposed by Health Care for America Now, which is the one that overwhelmingly has dominated the articles of CAF's writers and which is presently being supported by Obama.

One of the many flaws in that proposed plan is that it is a needs based program, which makes it kind of like a welfare program: more »

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