Another argument for single payer

“RUNAWAY HEALTH costs are rocking municipal budgets’’ (Page A1, Feb. 28) was welcome news indeed. Rapidly growing municipal spending on health care is but one more nudge toward a single payer system that will prove the only way to control costs while ensuring that everyone has affordable access to health care. Many of those who have health care coverage, expensive as it may be, are not pushing for reform. Neither are insurance companies, nor many medium-sized and large businesses. Current trends in the growth of health costs are untenable, and, while change never comes easy, history teaches that the harder one tries to hold on to an outdated status quo, the more painful the transition will be.