Wouldn’t you like to make decisions about treatments and drugs with your doctor, without an insurance company intervening in your decisions? Wouldn’t you like to receive no or minimal bills for health care? It’s possible with a single payer health care system.
 
The Assembly has passed a single payer health care bill (A4738); the New York Senate version remained in committee (S4840). That’s one reason why I will be voting for Democrat Robert Kesten who will be running against the republican incumbent Terrence Murphy in the 40th New York State Senate District in 2018. Murphy does not support single payer. 

Read the rest of the letter here at the Times-Union here.