[...] First, he should stop using the clunky term "single payer" to describe his plan. [Why - you've been using it for your whole column?] Nobody except for us news junkies and policy wonks knows what that means. [I'm in the club, I'm in the club - WOO HOO!]

Instead, he should describe it as a simple expansion of Medicare to cover everybody. Medicare is a program most Americans understand comfortably and want to keep. Building on that popularity and comfort level, many experts over the years have advocated expanding Medicare to cover everyone, regardless of age.

Great googly-moogly, if that doesn't chill your blood, welcome to the far left. Who are these experts advocating Medicare expansion, and have they been slapped down yet? Simple expansion ... I guess to match the universe, because once we start a single-payer health plan, there will be no end in sight to the gouging of wallets.[...]