Richard Painter: Fiscal conservatives need to take the single payer argument seriously.

[highplainsdem]

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Fiscal conservatives need to take the single payer argument seriously. Health care costs are crushing small businesses and American families. Overhead and waste is huge. And millions still with no insurance. Congress needs to fix this mess.

http://www.stltoday.com/opinion/mailbag/single-payer-system-would-improve-health-care-economics/article_df0b711b-740f-5b51-8ae7-2111d59d77fc.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share … via @stltoday

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Painter is right.

[marylandblue]

2. Wow, he may be an actual Democrat.

[Anon-C]

3. Never underestimate a conservative's ability to put mean-spirited-ness before principle and...

...common sense!

[area51]

4. We need

single-payer health care now!

[salin]

5. My repub sibling who is a doctor - has said this for a decade.

The only way to have a force large enough and forceful enough to hold costs and stem the gouging is a single payer system.

[marble falls]

6. My single payer is wonderful - the VA. I'd be dying or dead without the wonderful treatment...

I get.

[procon]

7. From a business standpoint, you'd think Republicans would be the real trailblazers

on single payer.