U.S. needs single payer healthcare

The current stalemate in the legislature has a simple solution. The United States like nearly every other industrialized country has, needs a single payer system for health care. It would solve a number of today’s problems: 1. Every U.S. citizen would be covered. 2. Administration of a single plan would simplify and streamline processes for medical offices. 3. It would eliminate PBMs because everyone would be represented by a single entity eliminating inconsistent pharmaceutical because it would the same throughout the system and 4. It would curtail those annoying calls from telemarketers soliciting for insurance services.

I know this is a dream, it steps on powerful toes in the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. A lot of jobs would be unnecessary. Much of the administration in medical offices, many people in the insurance industry in sales and service, and countless telemarketers. I know insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyists would spend vast amounts in efforts to stop this and on political contributions to sway the opinions of our legislators. It simply makes too much sense for legislators who would rather argue than make progress.

Jay Stolba

Cedar Rapids