Not ALL the Democratic candidates: Dennis Kucinish is advocating Universal Health Insurance, NOT based on insurance companies.

HMO/PPO's s/b abolished. They provide no services. Doctors and other health care providers could easily submit claims via computer to one central health care payment computer, just like an income tax return. The central computer could reimburse the filer within seconds directly to bank accounts. Post-audits could be made by computer, then, selectively, by human auditors. Cheating health care providers would be maximally punished. The one payer would negotiate how much it will pay for Rx's. Today's system is fraught with politics, begs for scams, and has almost nothing to do with our national health.

So what is new? This has been going on since the inception of insurance. And they only want to insure the healthy and young.
Many of us in healthcare, have seen the results of this on both ourselves & our pts.
Yet most of Americans just want to scream about socialized medicine.
That is, until it happens to them.

Health care even when you have it, is a laugh. My last job went from an 80/20 plan to 60/40. That is not care of any kind. Its what private equity firms do to a company. That was before the layoff.
Universal health care cannot include the hmo's and ppo's of today and it must include dental also. You can tell a person is part of the working poor by their teeth!

Healthscam healthscare healthcare, gimme your wallet...

We might as well give up on the Democrats and have our own new revolution. We know who our enemies are: The top 1% mostly, but also as far down as the top 19%. The opulent, greedy swine who use their money to get more money while the rest of us suffer. The unaccountable multinational corporations with more influence in the world than God.
They need to be stopped. They have the money, but we have the power if only we wake up and realize it.

And the REALLY EVIL thing? Those same companies are very actively "consulting" China and India to adopt their "obviously superior" healthcare model.