“The statist establishment would love a single-payer health-care system like Canada’s if it were politically achievable. Barack Obama said that if we were starting from scratch, single payer is what he’d back. But, thankfully, Americans are still libertarian enough to cringe at turning the medical system entirely over to government.”
“So with single payer out of reach, the fans of government control have grabbed for second best: the “public option.” This would be government-run health insurance that would “compete” with private insurance…”
Full column by John Stossel @ http://www.reason.com/news/show/134829.html