The Blog | Jeff Cohen: Will Healthcare Timidity Trip Up Hillary Clinton? | The Huffington Post

The Blog Jeff Cohen: Will Healthcare Timidity Trip Up Hillary Clinton? The Huffington Post: "That single-payer is the rational, cost-effective way to reform healthcare is an easy case to make - and was eloquently argued last month by respected Democratic party activist and lawyer Guy T. Saperstein. Despite spending twice as much money on healthcare as other industrialized nations, our system fails to cover 47 million people and generally performs poorly. Experts point to the main cause of the failure -- a private insurance bureaucracy that soaks up nearly one-third of all healthcare dollars in waste, profits, paperwork, commissions and advertising. "