Proponents of a universal single payer healthcare system in the U.S. tend to believe that healthcare is a human right, not a commodity. I agree. We would never allow our law enforcement, highway, judicial, water, and innumerable other public services to become market-driven commodities. Even the poorest of human societies make efforts and allocate resources to care for all of their citizens.

Nevertheless, national healthcare system proponents often fail to grasp the depth, scope, and breadth of fraud, inefficiency, and waste in our current multi-payer collage of healthcare payers and players. This leaves the field of conjecture about how to finance a healthcare system to the opponents of it, who naturally conclude that it would of necessity require more dollars. In reality, it would require less dollars reallocated and better controls. The only means to achieve both is to establish a universal single payer system (Medicare-expanded) devoid of the so-called managed care organizations, which have abandoned Medicare enrollees by the hundreds of thousands and ineffective in controlling costs for employer-based benefits plans.

An electoral process that is dependent upon campaign finance from guardians of the status quo sustains the national disgrace that its defenders reference as ‘the best healthcare system in the world.’ It is the best for those who can afford services; it is not a healthcare ‘system’.

Americans don’t really give a damn if their healthcare coverage is financed through government or from hundreds of insurance mechanisms. They just want to be secure in the knowledge that they have access to healthcare when they need it.

Congested emergency rooms of America’s hospitals are the most expensive and least appropriate places to provide timely, preventive, and early treatment for the onset of medical conditions or to provide primary healthcare services. We will either utilize finite resources more efficiently devoid of fraud, massive waste, inefficiency, and windfalls for healthcare executives and shareholders or the current non-system will implode within a few years.