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I happen to come across this and thought I'd respond.

It's a shame that you are so closed to a private company having an important role to play that you missed the point. If you understood the challenges to successfully implementing the Affordable Care Act, you would know that e-health could play a hugely important role in helping to get more Americans insured and accomplishing the goals of reform. Had you further been able to listen with a more open mind, you would have heard that the gentleman who was on, the CEO of E-health, happened to have been a major supporter of Obamacare and did more than his share to make it happen. How do you think I happen to know him?

I gotta tell you that the only thing that I find as disturbing as a close minded, obstinate, lazy and unavailable right-winger is a close minded, obstinate, lazy and unavailable progressive, probably because I expect so much more from progressives. You heard the words "private company" and you never heard the rest of the story. That is precisely why it has been so incredibly difficult to get Americans to understand why the healthcare reform is both positive and important for so many-even if it doesn't reach the level of a single-payer system which i am long on record as preferring.

Frankly, your not liking the radio program will not change my life in the smallest. Indeed, it is only a three week run and then I will be back to my "day jobs".

But your inability to actually hear a story and decide for yourself where it leads-without first running it through some filter that first decides if it is safe for progressive consumption-very much hurts a lot of lives. You should wise up because you are not doing anyone any good at all-particularly yourself.

Now, I've given you a reason to hate not only my radio show, but my television work and my column with equal abandon for not being sufficiently pure to make it easy for you to brand these things one way or another without having to actually do a little work and thinking for yourself. Look me up if you ever decide that you are ready to actually understand issues and be open to important solutions no matter where they may come from.