Reply #2: First of all, Single Payer means people won't have to avoid a doctor visit when the symptom first

[Ron Green]

appears just because they don't have insurance.

Secondly, ending subsidies for Big Corn, Big Soy and Big Oil will be a start toward healthier living for everyone.

Thirdly, a realistic discussion about death as the natural end of life, as well as abandoning the idea of eternal youth, will make more end-of-life decisions sensible.

Of course high-tech medicine and machines have a place, but as long as decisions are financial that should be medical (and spiritual), the inevitable lines will not be reasonably drawn.