Robyn Goshorn, MD, FACP writes in the Portland Press Herald on December 22, 2024:
“…Presidents from both parties, going back to Theodore Roosevelt, have proposed national health insurance as the optimal financial structure for our health care system. Instead, we have our current system because we elect representatives and senators who favor private insurance with its massive administrative cost and profit motive.
I wish we all would redirect our attention from the perfectly predictable behavior of for-profit companies to this structural problem in our health care system. We should all demand that our political representatives in Washington reject the private insurance lobby and take seriously the need for single-payer national health insurance.”
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