Get rid of the 1,300 payers (read: insurance companies).

Replace them with one single payer.

No to multi-payer.

Yes to single payer.

That’s the take of Kevin Zeese.

Zeese is the executive director of prosperityagenda.us.

“Single payer is emblematic of so many of the problems that the country faces,” Zeese told Single Payer Action earlier this month. “We’re seeing pay to pay politics in Washington, DC. We’re seeing the connection between corporations and the Democrat and Republican parties. And we’re seeing people’s needs being ignored as a result of that.”

“Health care, particularly single payer, has such widespread support in the public, such widespread support among doctors, among nurses, among economists. It’s obviously the right choice for having to provide health care to all Americans. And if we can win this battle, it will show Americans they have more power than they realize in a whole host of issues.”

“Right now Washington, D.C. only listens to the corporate interests. Corporate power rules up here. We have to break that connection.  I think health care is the issue that can do that. It will be a great benefit to the country.  In addition, if we put in place single payer, it is the only way we’re going to control the cost of health care.  If we don’t control the cost of health care, we’re not going to control deficit spending at the state or federal level. We can’t do it any other way. To have a government that functions we need a single payer system as well.”