1. It is the only system that will ensure that every American has access to health care throughout their lives. Single payer will allow people to keep insurance unrelated to their employment.

2. It is the only cost-effective way to achieve health care for all because it immediately saves $400 billion in health insurance created bureaucracy, it will uncover hundreds of billions in waste, fraud, and abuse, it will allow for negotiation on the price of pharmaceutical drugs and and it will reduce malpractice as people with bad health outcomes will have health care to treat them.

3. Single payer provides people with the maximum choice. They will no longer be limited by the insurance or HMO "approved" list but rather will be able to pick their doctor, their hospital and their treatment.

Real reform of health care is needed. We do not need to tinker with the broken multi-payer system. We do not need to preserve the costly, failed private insurance system -- we need to change it. Single payer has worked in every country that has tried it. Medicare is working in the United States. Single payer is merely expanding improved Medicare to all Americans.

It is time to put single payer on the table, indeed it is time to make it America's national health policy. A private meeting will not relieve the political pressure the Senate is feeling. We want real change not symbolic meetings.

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