Reply #88: Noooo, that is NOT what a Single Payer Plan is.

[Warren DeMontague]

A single payer plan replaces the entire for-profit insurance industry with one large gov't run pool comprising ALL citizens; i.e., a "single payer", what the GOP misleading calls "socialized medicine"... although government-run insurace seems to work just fine for Congresspeople, The Military, Medicare, etc.

Canada has a Single Payer system. Single Payer systems replace the private, for-profit insurance industry.

That is NOT the same thing as fiddling the margins so that, by hook or by crook, the current insurance industry would be cajoled into covering everyone. (By the way; Obama's plan will stop insurance companies from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions. Will Hillary's?) This is not the same thing as eliminating the industry with its 20-30% profit margins and replacing it with a government-run plan containing maybe 3% overhead.

I'm astounded, really, that someone portraying themselves as an "expert" on this topic wouldn't know this.