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• Guest Opinion: U.S. needs to wake up and provide universal health care - September 4, 2007
  Ray Clasen | The News Press | Fort Myers, Florida
  Forget the hodgepodge of ideas that have been floated in different states on this issue; the only solution to this problem that makes sense is a single-payer universal health system administered by the federal government, a sort of Medicare for everyone. The argument that the government cannot be trusted to efficiently administer such a plan is ludicrous. The government already effectively runs Social Security and Medicare. Other large governments, for example Canada and Great Britain, administer universal health care programs, and do so quite efficiently.
• On Life Support - September 4, 2007  by Arian Campo-Flores | Newsweek.com
  It's a familiar story: America's emergency rooms are in crisis. But it's far worse than you think. How does the ER prepare for a terrorist attack when its medics can barely cope with the routine flow of mayhem on a Saturday night? A worried doctor traveled to Washington to sound the alarms.

Blog Watch

• The Corporate Crime of Selling Private Health Insurance
  In most of the world, it is a corporate crime to sell private health insurance.That’s because most countries insure their citizens as a matter of right.
• Blog postings from the Campaign for America's Future - Submitted by Bill Scher
  After watching Saturday's presidential candidate forum on health care, and judging the candidates using Roger Hickey's five health care questions, I'm left with key questions for each Oval Office aspirant.
• Universal Health for Insurance Companies - by DrSteveB | Daily Kos
  Last week I outlined the generic components of so-called mandated or mandatory plans. This week we will, with the help of Professor Len Rodberg, briefly outline some of specific national proposals that have been in the news lately.
• The health insurance crisis is no longer simply a welfare issue for low-income individuals. It is now a looming crisis for middle-income America, the majority of us.

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