The American Prospect‘s Ezra Klein discusses a new coalition of single-payer advocates and observes, “My sense of the single-payer movement, having watched and interacted with them for some time, is that they think, not necessarily wrongly, that their enemies are on the left.”

Michael Cannon of Cato@Liberty responds to a critique of his recent paper examining whether a “corporate model of organization” for physicians would lead to more effective care. Cannon concludes, “I suspect [Greg] Scandlen would agree with our policy recommendations: that we should deregulate the medical profession, and let consumers control their health care dollars and choose their own health plan.”

John Goodman of his eponymous Health Policy Blog says prevention doesn’t necessarily reduce health care costs because “[p]reventive care is not like an investment good that pays a positive rate of return. Instead, it’s like a consumption good.”

Sarah Arnquist of the Health Care Blog reports on White House Office of Health Reform Deputy Director Jeanne Lambrew’s comments at the AcademyHealth conference, where Lambrew expressed President Obama’s commitment to comprehensive reform this year, as well as the option for individuals to buy into a public plan. A webcast of the event is available online at kaisernetwork.org.

John Iglehart of the Health Affairs Blog looks at provisions in the SCHIP reauthorization and expansion bills that mandate states include dental benefits.

Jason Rosenbaum of Health Care for America NOW’s NOW! Blog reports on statements from a congressional staffers’ panel at the Families USA Health Action 2009 conference. Igor Volsky of the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Wonk Room reports on Atul Gawande’s comments on incremental health care reform from the same conference.

Jonathan Cohn of the New Republic‘s The Treatment discusses controversy over HHS Secretary-nominee Tom Daschle’s earning more than $200,000 in speaking fees from health care groups during the past two years. Cohn says that “it’s those connections — the type that inevitably come with high income and, yes, some baggage — that seem, however unfortunately, necessary for pushing health care reform through the congressional gauntlet.”