"Medicare for Everybody"

"Despite noisy opposition and malicious misinformation, a majority of the public still wants healthcare reform, but legislation running to 1,000 erudite pages looks formidable. Why not start with something as familiar and popular as the program that paid for your mother's hip replacement or your grandfather's bypass surgery? It is easier to promote something tested and trusted than something strange and new. It is easier to enlarge a proven, existing program than to start from scratch. It is easier to win people over to something simple than to wade through endless complexities about how a new system will work."

Theodore Roszak in the Los Angeles Times calls for opening Medicare to Americans under 65.