What do we need health insurers for anyway?

This thought provoking article appeared recently in the LA Times. It poses a question I have been thinking about for a long time. If the insurance companies are coming to government, hat in hand, for bailout money, do we really need them? Isn’t a one payer system the one logical alternative to the fractured, costly, badly managed system we now have?

I think its a real possibility. Please read LA Times article and respond in whatever form or on whatever channel you feel is most effective. I think this is something every American needs to weigh in on.