An argument for single-payer system

We in the U.S. have capitalized medicine. That is, the primary function of our health care system is to make a profit for the tiny minority of the public who own it.

For the vast majority, the people who don’t own it — you and me — capitalized medicine proves to be very expensive, relatively ineffective on a national scale and severely rationed for 50 million of us.

Many, if not most, adults can tell a horror story about our capitalized medical system.

Some few can tell of wonderful profits they’ve made selling expensive, ineffective, rationed health care and collaterally producing these horror stories.

Capitalized medicine teeters on the edge of the garbage dump of history. One good shove ends this unjust, predatory, anachronistic, expensive, ineffective and exclusionary system.

It’s time — way past time — for a single-payer health care system here — Medicare for all.

Rex Burwell

Elgin