Time to evaluate the benefits of single-payer healthcare

Healthcare is a fundamental human right. It’s time to stop kicking sand in the face of single-payer healthcare. It may be the strongest solution around to insure every American at a lower cost.

After decades of industry campaigns against this model – dubbed by its critics as “socialized” medicine – it’s important to stop whining and evaluate the many economic benefits.

Healthcare costs have become a crippling personal-finance burden for 45 million uninsured and 25 million underinsured Americans. Those outside of the fractured employer-based system are only one illness away from financial ruin....