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Sneaking In My Advocacy for Single Payer 
  Single payer HEALTH INSURANCE, that is.

 I've mentioned that I am an almost-compulsive "comment" writer on several newspaper sites. Haven't I?
Well, maybe two or three a day!  Whenever I see the chance, I sneak in something supporting "Medicare for all," "Single payer" or whatever. Check these three tap dances.
You write 'em, I'll comment on 'em. 
Washington Post -  David Ignatius: Hypersonics should make a Sputnik moment. 11.7.18
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Is the U.S. now even capable of a Sputnik moment? I'm worried that it's not, based on the 45% who apparently long for a plutocratic autocracy, yet are repelled by anything so "socialist" as keeping our workforce healthy with Single Payer, much less an national industrial policy. It's not just AI where the Hand of the Market is fumbling; the Chinese just demonstrated quantum radar - which greatly deteriorates our super-expensive stealth fleets. And don't get me started on hypersonics, super computers and quantum communications. 



Washington Post -  Tom Toles blog on fixing the “real” infrastructure (democracy) 11.12.18
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 This is a "cosmic" commentary, Mr. Toles, and it hits ground zero (where nearly all of us live). In truth your points are nearer to the core than almost anything else I'm reading from the pundit corps.
 Speaking of the "real infrastructure," it seems to me any country's workforce is its greatest asset. The American system as it is right now doesn't acknowledge that. Therefore we are sacrificing not only decent lives for millions of workers, we are shooting ourselves in the international competitive foot. It's a multi-faceted problem, and we will have to fix it one facet at a time.
For instance much of our workforce is in great jeopardy for medical bankruptcy and carries a load of anxiety about it. Many others are "trapped" in jobs they could improve on because the fear of losing employer provided insurance. Single payer health insurance could FIX that. One facet down; onward! 


Dallas Morning News -   Investigation of Texas health regulation  10.28.18
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One of the obvious benefits of "single payer" health insurance is the removal of the profit motive at medical insurance companies.You know, the "for-profit" part of the definition says it all. Most of the denials, cancellations, premium-increases, impenetrable red tape, and the list of horrors this great bit of investigative journalism exposes are - purely and simply - profit builders. As a long time entrepreneur, I can attest to the hundreds of roadblocks the big for-profits throw up to keep from paying clearly legitimate claims. Health insurance need not be "pure capitalism," as Medicare clearly demonstrates. 

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