In the spring, consultant Frank Luntz admonished the Republican Party to defeat President Barack Obama’s health care reform initiative, including national health insurance (also called universal health care or a single-payer system), according to Politico. If that’s true, Republicans are putting party politics before the needs of the country, and they may be winning the debate. 

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I’m afraid that Gene Lyons lost me in his June 22 column (“Sickly talk about fixing health care”) supporting President Barack Obama’s plan to establish a government-run health insurance plan, the purpose of which, to quote Obama, is to “keep the insurance industry honest.”