Universal health care does not require the “nationalization” of any health care providers. It simply requires that we catch up with the rest of the industrialized world. Every other nation in the industrialized world provides essential health care to every citizen. No one in any other nation in the industrialized world takes out bankruptcy because of medical bills. That only happens in the U.S. Are you proud of that?

Our system, by comparison to the rest of the industrialized world, is a failure:
(1) Our system costs more than twice as much as the average in the rest of the industrialized world.
(2) Our medical outcomes are mediocre by comparison with other nations.
(3) We are the only nation where people are without essential health care.

If you’re proud of that, I can only say that our values are world’s apart. In my view, one’s economic status should not determine whether he/she - or his/her children - should die or suffer needlessly. We can do so much better than we do - yet real reform has been prevented because of the rapacious for-profit insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and the elected officials who do their bidding rather than protect the public interest.