Excerpt: I believe the biggest impediment to our work over the last decade has not been the lack of a good program, because we know what a good single-payer program would look like. We have H.R. 676. We can look to Canada and places in northwestern Europe. So we have good models and we have a good program. The problem is the lack of hope - the lack of a sense of possibility. People hate the health insurance system and they know things need to change. But people don't believe things can change.  MORE >>