Reply #107: I think there are differences between now and 1992 [View All]

An analogy that you may find flawed, I don't know, but anyway, is that it took many tries and several failures to get a) slavery banned, and b) female suffrage.

There are many places to look to find out why Universal Coverage failed in 1992. Some people say that the DLC forced concessions to the insurance industry that made the final plan to bulky and unworkable.

In any case, the situation has gotten worse, and not better, since Bush's massive destruction of 3.1 million jobs. While more people had health insurance coverage under Clinton, the numbers are falling again.

Only Kucinich, as far as I know, has a plan to use a flat payroll tax to fund a non-private-insurance-polluted plan to cover everyone, and by using that huge new pool of insureds to create a system that will run more efficiently by being unhooked from the multiple inefficient ponzi schemes that are the private insurance industries.

I think he can do it, and I think the time has come for Universal Coverage.

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota