[FredZarguna]

... we need a public health system as much as we need a fire department or a military

True. From which follows nothing in the article. Typical of the shallow thinking, magical thinking, and non-thinking of Ellen Goodman. If you think health care is inaccessible to large numbers of people now, wait till it's "universal." If you think health care is expensive now, wait till it's "free."

[rhombus]

True. From which follows nothing in the article. Typical of the shallow thinking, magical thinking, and non-thinking of Ellen Goodman. If you think health care is inaccessible to large numbers of people now, wait till it's "universal." If you think health care is expensive now, wait till it's "free."

Well said.

[elbucko]

If you think health care is expensive now, wait till it's "free."

Well said. The "reality paradox" is not understood by people in the "Blue States".