Ralph Nader Strikes at Obamacare From the Left

President Barack Obamas signature health-care law is drawing fire from an old foe on the left in consumer advocate Ralph Nader. While Nader stayed out of the 2012 presidential contest, he ran against Obama in 2008 as an independent. Nader compared Obamas rollout to the launch of Medicare back in the 1960s -- and found Obamacare lacking.

Costly complexity is baked into Obamacare, Nader wrote in an email sent out on Tuesday morning. It must be replaced with a simple single-payer system. In the early 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson enrolled 20 million Americans into Medicare in six months. There were no websites. They did it with index cards. The majority of doctors, nurses and the American people want single payer.

So why dont we have it? Nader demanded. Because President Obama, the Democrats and their affiliated groups are wedded to Obamacare -- a Republican Heritage Foundation plan implemented by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts. In Washington, speaking the truth about Obamacare and single payer is taboo.