In an article subtitled Meet the interest groups that will decide the fate of medical insurance he mentions murder by spreadsheet astroturf and HCAN't.

Nowhere does he mention John Conyers, the 90 cosponsors, the the US Conference of Mayors or any of the broad coalition that has endorsed HR 676.

Don McCanne responds to TNR’s Jonathan Cohn

Systems using private plans are more expensive, largely because of greater administrative complexity. Equity is more difficult to achieve in a multi-payer system. A system of universal risk pooling would have to be superimposed on the private plans, making us wonder why we would even want to keep them since they would no longer be providing their insurance function of transferring risk.

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A question for Krugman, Matthew Yglesias, d-day, Ezra Klein; what makes you a better judge of practical politics than John Conyers and the 90 cosponsors of HR 676?

What HCAN is really about…

Yes We HCAN!

Forum set Thursday on reforming health care

A free public forum on reforming health care in California will be held Thursday at 7 p.m. in Mountain View's City Hall, 500 Castro St.

Local health care experts and advocates for a new "single-payer" system for the state will discuss accessibility problems of today's health care and a "Medicare-type" plan designed to make health care more accessible.

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Dear Michael Moore and John Conyers:

By now you have heard of Health Care for America Now. Clearly the effect of this group is to blunt the drive for single payer. As the most visible leaders in the single payer movement we need you to come up with a counter strategy.

Like everyone else, I am just now learning about Health Care for America Now!. Certainly they have an impressive coalition.

However, no where on the site is any reference to HR 676, so I have mixed feelings about this.

I have asked them about HR 676. I will let you know what, if any, answer I receive.