Last year, former Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid made a great documentary for the PBS show Frontline titled Sick Around the World.

Reid traveled to five countries that deliver health care for all – UK, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Taiwan – to learn about how they do it.

Reid found that the one thing these five countries had in common – none allowed for-profit health insurance companies to sell basic medical coverage.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) was reluctant to introduce a single payer bill in the Senate.

He knew that of the 100 Senators, he would be alone.

The handful of other Senators who might favor a single payer approach didn’t want to chance offending Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) who, along with Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana), are leading the charge for President Obama in the Senate – and together have kicked single payer off the table.