Praise for Obama plan

Recently, President Barack Obama informed the nation, "I want to cover everybody. Now, the truth is that unless you have a — what's called a single-payer system, in which everybody's automatically covered, then you're probably not going to reach every single individual."

As a 62-year-old with a heart transplant, I am alive today because of Medicare, which is the closest thing we have to this kind of health-care system. It works, works well and could be made to work even better. I encourage other Americans, and particularly our politicians, to listen to Obama and get behind him on this issue.

Daniel Geery

Salt Lake City