When I began this campaign, a number of people were surprised that I would put healthcare at the center of my vision for a better state and country. "Isn't your opponent seen as the healthcare expert," they asked?

So, it's time to stop the charade. The only solution for our health care crisis is Medicare For All--a single-payer healthcare system. It is the only way to take the obscene profit-making out of the system, cover every American, save hundreds of billions of dollars for individuals and businesses. This is a moral and economic imperative.

Hillary Clinton has never supported single-payer healthcare. Never. Her lesson for the failure of health care "reform" in the 1990s was *not* that we need to really take on the drug and insurance industry. It was that she had to cozy up to the industry.

Indeed, today, The New York Times has a story documenting how the health care industry has bought Clinton's allegiance. Only right-wing Senator Rick Santorum has received more money from the industry than my opponent. As the article points out, "Separate analyses by the Center For Responsive Politics, an independent group that tracks campaign finance, and by The New York Times show that Senator Clinton received $854,462 from the health care industry in 2005-6, a larger amount that any candidate except Senator Santorum, with $977,354."

Does anyone believe that the industry is donating to my opponent for any other reason than it believes that it can count on Hillary Clinton NOT to threaten its obscene profits that come out of the hides of average working Americans?

Our campaign is about stopping the charade, a charade that is costing every person in our state.