We Americans are alone among the citizens of the industrialized nations of the modern world to constrict access to affordable, quality health care for all of our people, denying it to many in fact. The corporations whose enormous profits flow from the present system (or a new one that would guarantee their advantage) have such a grip on the policymakers that widespread citizen efforts are effectively ignored.
Vermont for Single Payer is organized to promote state-level, single-payer, health care that would be publicly funded and deny no one. "Everybody in, nobody out" is their slogan. In many states (among them California, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) there are similar campaigns. State-level, single payer systems would surely encounter bureaucratic obstacles, but "complicated" doesn’t have to mean "impossible."
For current information, see: Physicians for a National Health Program (pnhp.org) and Vermont for Single Payer (https://www.vermontforsinglepayer.org )
ANN M. ROSS
Cornwall