The ACA will actually hinder efforts towards adopting a single-payer system, writes health care reform advocate.
!["We have not changed the fundamental problem with the health care system in the US...health care is treated as a commodity to be bought rather than as a good that all people need", writes Margaret Flowers [Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/201310149824523580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Margaret Flowers, MD served as Congressional Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program and is on the board of Healthcare-Now. She is co-director of It's Our Economy and co-host of Clearing the FOG Radio Show.
The ACA will actually hinder efforts towards adopting a single-payer system, writes health care reform advocate.
!["We have not changed the fundamental problem with the health care system in the US...health care is treated as a commodity to be bought rather than as a good that all people need", writes Margaret Flowers [Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/201310149824523580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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