The Failures of the Health Insurance System

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Free public education, the abolition of slavery, labor laws, anti-discrimination laws and many other forward-looking policies began at the state level.
44% : It turns out that not-for-profit systems, like Medicare or Medicaid, and universal health care systems, like those in each Canadian province, are often neither better nor worse than the for-profit offering.
42% : To the Editor: Re "Why I Quit My Job as a Health Insurance Executive," by Wendell Potter (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 20): The problems with private health coverage are not things that marginal changes can fix.
35% : Len DiSesa Dresher, Pa. Making Polluters Pay To the Editor: Re "New York Law Makes Polluters Pay on Climate" (front page, Dec. 27): One billion tons of pollution globally over the past 24 years is a very big mess that fossil fuel companies have made.

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