As Obama Hosts Summit on Healthcare, Marginalized Advocates Ask Why Single Payer Is Ignored

Interview with Harper’s senior editor Luke Mitchell, author of the article "Sick in the Head: Why America Won’t Get the Health-Care System It Needs."

Democracy Now!:

"When I started my Harper’s article, what I wanted to understand is why this approach to healthcare, single payer, which is used in most of the wealthy Western nations, which is much more efficient, which is much more equitable, which is much more amenable to making people healthy, is so far out of the mainstream in the United States. And I think what I found in the article was that—that it’s purely a mental blockage."

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