City piece on the Maine People\u27s Alliance (MPA), which has just started its ou

City piece on the Maine People\u27s Alliance (MPA), which has just started its outreach efforts to promote a single-payer health-care system for Maine with a training session on how to promote the concept to the public. Under a single-payer system, MPA says everybody would get fair and equal medical treatment and prescription drugs paid for with tax dollars, Mainers would save at least $300 million in health-care expenses, and prescription drug costs would plummet. MPA also said the overhead for health-insurance companies ranges from 9 to 30 percent, while the state\u27s Medicaid overhead is only 5 percent