You may think universal single-payer health insurance is an item whose time has finally come. Opening nationally next weekend, Michael Moore’s SiCKO, the documentary about our outrageous, expensive, irrational anarchic crazy-quilt patch work of health insurance has been the subject of substantial discussion and buzz everywhere. 43.6 Million Americans have no health insurance at all. Perhaps as many as 100 million more have insurance so porous that any illness will clean them out completely. Corporations and public employers which provide health coverage are being drained of cash by the costs of coverage.

Kevin Stack’s NY Times story features a photo of Moore with Congressional supporters of HR 676, the Medicare for all, universal single payer bill. (Where is your Congress Member? Mine, Nydia Velazquez, whom I like, refuses to favor single payer for no reason I understand.)  read more »