No we don't need national health insurance. We need to fix what's broken so the free market can bring down the costs. Nothing the government has EVER done in the way of big programs has improved the system or brought down costs. Simply not paying what the costs are won't do it--that's what is happening with Medicare and Medicaid--and if you put the entire system under that kind of plan, we will no longer have a great healthcare system.
Companies should not be providing their employees with health insurance here either. The employee should own his/her policy and should be able to take it with him/her when s/he changes jobs. Companies would be free to pay some or all the premium for an employee's policy if they wanted to or they could choose to pay higher salaries and increase other benefits.
There are all kinds of way to fix what's broken without the government taking over and wrecking the whole thing.
That's just more right wing silliness.
Single payer systems are cheaper and more fair. That's why every other industrialized nation has one. The Germans have had one since 1886!
Single payer systems may be cheaper but they aren't as good and they aren't as fair. To say otherwise is left wing silliness.
So having a system that is cheaper and gives eveyone the same access to healthcare is not more fair?
How?