Sylvia Hampton, President of the Coalition for Quality Health Care, San Diego, responds to Philip Pollner and Nancy Wooten on Unity for NHI:

This requires a political strategy. The insurance industry will fight it every step of the way. So many reputable organizations like League of Women Voters, AAUW, AARP, Neighbor to Neighbor, and organized Labor would be willing to work on reaching a consensus on a national health plan. You have your 10 million right there. Once consensus is reached you storm the doors of Congress and the White House. It took the League 2 years to reach consensus on universal health care which states:

(Please go to this link for the position of the League of Women Voters: http://www.lwv.org/where/creating/healthcare_read.html)