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Sent today to Boston Globe letters editor, all the democratic candidates, and the DNC:

Boston Globe Columnist Derrick Jackson got it exactly right (“Kucinich is right on healthcare“): the other candidates are lying when they say they will provide affordable health care for all. As Mass-Care director Benjamin Day’s op-ed the next day eloquently describes,   the touted Massachusetts reform is not working; like the proposals by every candidate but Kucinich, it never can. Reorganizing the cost and availability of a variety of health insurance plans is a shell game, a game the private insurance and pharmaceutical companies will always win. Only a single-payer non-profit system can get affordable health care to everyone who needs it, regardless of their income, employment, age, or past or current illnesses. 

Everyone who wants fairer and more efficient health care should demand that ALL the democratic Presidential candidates together with party leadership get with the program. They should jointly and publicly pledge: the Democratic presidential nominee, whoever she or he is, will making passing HR   676, the single payer health insurance bill, the administration’s first priority. They will lose the financial backing of the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies of course, but they’ll gain the gratitude of the majority of the people they say they want to serve.