Idea: market “single-payer healthcare” as “health security” or “health defense”.

For some reason, things sound more tantalizing to American ears when “-security” is appended to the end of a word. I’ve heard “energy security” (or energy independence) used, I’ve heard “environmental security” used, so why not “health security”? All it would communicate is the fact that the health of our citizens is not only the priority of any civil society, but also a priority of national security, stability and sovereignty.

It would also communicate that without federal intervention through the efficiency of a single-payer system, we will continue to see the chaos and irregular conduct of healthcare and health insurance by various brackets or classifications of humanity.

So I hope that this term – “health security” or “health defense” -comes into use in the future on the part of advocates for healthcare reform in this country.