The health insurance industry is just one more thing that we endure without outrage that I can't comprehend

This guy's essay is fairly innocuous in execution but pretty deep in implication. If the American people want a publicly administered health insurance program, then it's really only a short step to the American people wanting a publicly administered health care program. But, before we even take that first step, the lobbies will swing into action and the media will begin to tell the American people that they don't want socialized medicine. I mean, just look at the problems they have with it Canada and Europe.

Of course, the fact that they don't have any problems in Canada and Europe won't matter. The fact that we have the worst health care in the industrialized world will be hidden under a rhetoric proclaiming the exact opposite: that we have the finest health care in the world *because* of our health care for profit model.

I'm 44 years old and in pretty good physical health but I believe that in my lifetime a combination of ecological and economic factors will create situations where the American health care system will collapse. It will really only take one good nation-wide flu epidemic. And, when we put it back together, if we push hard enough, we can get a health care system that is designed to care for people instead of profits.

That is provided that there isn't a big enough die off to cause societal collapse.