OK then. A Message to Hillary Supporters...

[JDPriestly]

72. Everyone should have health insurance.

Our health insurance costs twice what health insurance costs in other countries with single payer on average.

That's comparing the per capita costs.

http://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0006_health-care-oecd

Pete Peterson's group. Hillary loves it.

Hospitals are required to treat anyone who comes into their emergency room. Whether you like it or not, the cost of treating the indigent, whether they are poor because they cannot find work, because they are addicted, because they earn a low wage, because they are going through a divorce or are ill or whatever, is added to the cost of the hospital bills of all of us. And I mean all of us. The insurance companies pay those bills that include those costs. So you and I pay when we pay for our insurance, the cost of medical care -- the most expensive, least inefficiently provided medical care, for those who do not have health insurance for whatever reason.

I lived in Europe. I loved single payer insurance. It makes sense. The choice of doctors is much better than here because virtually all doctors are on your plan. If you go to another state or another city, you don't have to ask your insurance company to OK your treatment or maybe pay a premium for that treatment.

Deductibles will be lower. Care will be better organized and more accessible.

The main reason people are skeptical about single payer health insurance is that they have never enjoyed it- - not for any length of time.

Single payer insurance is cheaper and better than our for-profit insurance.

Anyone who hates taxes so much that they would rather pay a for-profit company a HIGHER INSURANCE PREMIUM than pay a lower insurance premium in the form of a tax is short and simple, a REPUBLICAN.

People who don't want single payer must hate Social Security because we pay a tax and if we earn the maximum income and pay the maximum tax, then we pay for the retirement benefits of many who earn very little or may have worked fewer years than we did.

There are Democrats and then there are Republicans.

Republicans would rather pay twice as much for for-profit insurance than pay half as much for single payer. That's almost the definition of a Republican.