Three on single-payer

I.

‘Single-Payer’ Supporters Challenge Democrats
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 6, 2009

When President Obama convened a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, N.M., last month, he wanted to talk about credit card reform. But many in the crowd had a different agenda.

“So many people go bankrupt using their credit cards to pay for health care,” the first questioner said to applause. “Why have they taken single-payer off the plate?”

The “single-payer” activists had struck again. As Obama and congressional Democrats work to hammer out landmark health-care legislation, they face increasingly noisy protests from those on the left who complain that a national program like those in Europe has been excluded from the debate.

II.

Single-Payer and the ‘Democracy Deficit’
Or, ‘Why corporate control of the media may be hazardous to your health’…
– Guest Editorial by Ernest A. Canning

III.

How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option, And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do
June 5, 2009, 10:19PM

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Three on single-payer

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