At the wedding party previously alluded to, I was part of a conversation in which an HMO surgeon explained he was not opposed to a national single-payer health system.
(That means the US of A covers everybody with health insurance, while doctors, medical groups, hospitals compete in a free medical market.)
Funny. Though the idea makes insurors furioous, lots of MDs agree. Yet no serious candidate for President - sorry, Dennis - is on record favoring a single-payer system.
PS Which reminds me. I have doubts about Howard Dean. I'm beginning to doubt that he's very liberal.