Got to hand it to New York Times reporter Katharine Seelye.

In a recent article in the Times, she ripped into single payer Medicare for all health reform and made it seem as if there exists a consensus – from across the political spectrum – that it couldn’t work here in the USA.

Or as she put it – “experts of diverse ideological views say expanding Medicare would be far more complicated and politically difficult than it might appear.”

She then proceeds to quote three of these “experts” — all of whom have ties to the insurance industry.

Expert number one – Jonathan Skinner – works at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice – which is funded by a number of insurance industry foundations – including the Wellpoint Foundation, the Aetna Foundation, and the United Health Foundation.

Expert number two – Stuart Altman – is chairman of the Health Industry Forum, whose charter members are: Aetna Inc., Ascension Health, EmblemHealth, Inc., Kaiser Permante and a number of drug companies.

And expert number three – Robert E. Moffit — is director of the Center for Health Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, which is a think tank marinated in health insurance and other corporate cash.

If Katherine Seelye were interested in “diverse ideological views” she might have started with any of the more than 17,000 physicians who are members of Physicians for a National Health Program — all of whom support single payer.

They are free of institutional insurance industry ties.

As is Single Payer Action.

And dozens of other single payer groups around the country.

Next time, Ms. Seelye, reach out.

And touch someone outside the insurance industry’s sphere of influence.