Medicare for All

I looked at all the democratic candidates' websites. The only one who has a plan for a single payer health care system is Dennis Kucinich. He is also the only one who has health care at the top of his issues list. Yes, it is more important than the war because the current system kills more Americans in one year than the war ever will. All the other candidates have lame-o plans that would make health care "affordable" for all Americans or get insurance to the 40 million who don't have it. These people still don't get it. It's not a question of money. It's a basic human right. And when a politician proposes anything that is not a single payer system that guarantees free care for everyone for everything they need, he is essentially saying that we Americans are not entitled to the same human rights as, say, the French or the Canadians. Seriously, when was the last time you heard a politician giving a speech about the need for affordable access to police protection? How many Republicans are touting virtues of the free market in providing Americans with their choice of competing for-profit fire departments?

(By the way, in a previous post, I praised Ron Paul, but that was as a Republican, not as a candidate. Republicans are one of two things: grossly misinformed or just plain evil. I think Ron Paul is just misinformed, but that doesn't mean I think he should be President.)