Kappa calls

I think I mentioned a while ago that Kappa's been doing bird calls. Well one of them was very clearly a blue jay, it's the first call at this link, in fact. The other I can't remember now if it was the second blue jay call on that page, or if it was a cardinal (linky here). At the time I was very certain it was an actual local bird though, so I'll have to keep my ears peeled and see if I can hear her do it again. ^_^

Single payer healthcare?

What is it?

This time I'm looking for the three paragraph synopsis. The three four sentence synopsis I got about it this weekend is as follows:

Money goes from the person to a fund and *then* to the health insurance company. People don't sue doctors at all. It saves you money. It's better than the current system and has no drawbacks whatsoever.

I have no clue if that synopsis is true or not. It certainly seems to me that sentences 2-4 do NOT necessarily follow from sentence 1, which is what people were trying to convince me of. So: explain.

Edit: People also appear to be claiming that SPHC is identical to universal health care, and it's my understanding that the two are orthogonal (independent) concepts.