Clip File: The inevitability of an American single-payer health system

"Amidst the ideological back and forth that is the health care reform debate of 2009, recent studies reveal a growing reality that each of us can easily understand, no matter what our ideological point of view.

"It will not be long until the private health insurance model will no longer work – for anybody.

"It’s got nothing to do with public options or single payer advocates just as it will have nothing to do with those prepared to defend America from socialism at all costs.

"The simple fact is that single-payer, government controlled health care is inevitable because the trajectory of the private health insurance system reveals that it is doomed to fail – and sooner than we might realize."

The rest of the story: The inevitability of an American single-payer health system by Rick Ungar (True/Slant 2009-10-20)