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In their article on national health insurance, Woolhandler and Himmelstein¹ are right for a number of reasons:

1. The current nonsystem takes a tremendous amount of resources away from health care.
   
2. The current nonsystem is redundant and frustrating for all involved (except insurance company executives who make unconscionable millions of dollars each year).
   
3. Currently, the insurance industry rules supreme—along with Wall Street.
   
4. The pharmaceutical industry is next in power; then come the politicians, influenced and lobbied aggressively by the powers above. So much is consumed by these "market forces."
   
5. Whatever is left over goes to patients and providers—and it is not enough!
   
6. Medicare works; it's pretty fair and efficient but could use some improvements.
   
7. United States military and Department of Veterans Affairs health care also work fairly well as examples of "socialized medicine."
   
8. We can do better than Canada, but we must set some limits like Oregon had the guts to . . . [Full Text of this Article]