Universal healthcare is not the same as single payer health insurance. I believe we have to have universal health care. How many of you are old enough to remember when auto insurance wasn't mandatory? There is a reason that we all have to have auto insurance and it is because it costs each of us more if anyone is uninsured. If more people have insurance (and we need a PUBLIC OPTION to keep costs down- administrative costs) then there will be more healthy people, less work and productivity losses, less emergency room care, and more jobs for nurses, doctors and other health care providers. Business cannot keep bearing the burden of 68% of our health care coverage. It has to change for us to remain a global competitor. Medicare, and the VA are both public options and they work pretty darn good and keep costs down. I don't think the pro and con in the paper today was very well researched. It was like a pro and con of a single payer system which is not even on the table. Can't you do a story on what is really being discussed? Give people the truth.

The no's have it..

"when someone points to someone else and says they're greedy - "judge not....."

OMG, people from San Francisco are for socialized medicine? Say it isn't so !

Actually they are very experienced in socialism so they know all about it and how well it works. Yeah they are in great fiscal shape - got any IOU's lately Freethinker?

I think universal healthcare is the way to go. Healthcare cost are now the top cause of personal bankruptcy in the US. Healthcare is only getting more expensive each year. More and more people(hundreds of thousands) from the US are going to foreign countries to get top-notch medical care. It's a big business-medical tourism. And many of the doctors are trained in the US. This is a big business. And the main reason is that our medical system is failing. The doctors I have spoken to seem to be for universal healthcare.