Mayors Make Good Move On Health Care

It didn't get much attention last week— the country's obviously preoccupied with the state of the economy and out-of-control oil prices — but there was a significant development in the growing movement to fix the broken American health care system.

For the first time, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the high-powered national organization that met here in the summer of 2002 and gathered this year in Miami, adopted a resolution at its annual convention supporting national single-payer health insurance.