My hellacious health care nightmare -- Obamacare has ruined me

[karynnj]

50. Howard Dean was not for single payer in 2004

Rather than cherry pick - here are many statements including those around 2004. http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Howard_Dean_Health_Care.htm

Dean, like many other Democrats, opted for universal health insurance rather than single payer because single payer could not pass Congress. (Even Bernie Sanders in 2010 said there were only about 10 Senators who would vote for it. It is likely lower now as Senators on the record for being for it if it could pass included Kennedy, Dodd, Harkin, Rockefeller and Kerry. Kerry's and Kennedy's current replacements likely are for it - maybe Dodd's - but no way Rockefeller's or Harkin's)

More importantly, I hope that you get this settled - hopefully with the truck driver paying - and get on a better plan. Your experience and that of others shows that the government still needs to improve the requirements on what plans provide. There is something really wrong when plans are not really tested until they are actually needed.

My daughter, who is essentially healthy, complained every time she had to find a doctor for anything on our plan - remembering how easy it was the year she did her masters in London and was on the national health care system. One observation she had was that - unlike every American doctor - the national health actually used the health records she showed and didn't insist that tests recently done be repeated for them.