How to cover us all

By The Tampa Tribune
Published: February 08, 2010

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President Barack Obama's State of the Union address had a high point when he pledged that anyone with a "better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors and stop insurance company abuses, let me know."

Thank you, Mr. President. The answer is the reform supported by 65 percent of the public and even 59 percent of physicians. It's remarkably simple, and the nation has already had 44 years of successful experience with it in financing health care for our elderly and the totally disabled.

It is, of course, Medicare-for-all, single-payer, not-for-profit national health insurance. Its superiority lies in excluding profit-seeking insurance companies and Big Pharma from controlling and undermining our health system.

STEPHEN D'ANGELO

Tampa