By Joe Martin
The Seattle Times, Letters, April 1, 2015
Columnist Froma Harrop is absolutely correct regarding the complexities that pervade the arcane world of Americaās health insurance [āObamacare should be less complex,ā Opinion, March 29]. Although Obamacare is to be saluted for having made insurance coverage available to so many who had not had it before, it is still for a great number of citizens an incomprehensible and convoluted affair.
There is a solution to the vagaries of medical insurance: the development of a comprehensive national health policy that would impose a single-payer system, provide medical access to everyone, be simple and easily understood, and would take the greedy corporate profiteering of the private insurance industry out of the equation.
A single-payer system is what this nation desperately needs to mend the macaronic insurance mess.
Joe Martin resides in Seattle.
http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/fixing-obamacare-move-to-single-payer-system/