Pfft. Howard Dean is dead to me.

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10. BUT single payer is not good enough!

We need to improve the Medicare system to alleviate the burden of cost for so-called "supplemental" insurance. My parents pay nearly $800 a month for such insurance. It's necessary. Had they not had it they would have experienced financial ruin last year due to a sudden serious illness my father experienced. While he overcame it, the uncovered costs of treatment--including 40 hyperbaric treatments and periodic hospitalization--would have cost nearly $250,000. My father is a retired Iowa factory worker with a modest retirement annuity that yields $10,000 a year, at best. So..."Medicare for all" is not good enough. Not only do we need that, but we need BETTER MEDICARE FOR ALL. We need to END the current status quo of insurance companies as scavengers upon half-measure public policy. We can be better than we are.

That said, I agree with the principle.