At the Health Care for All panel, there were leading health care wonks: Jacob Hacker, who has released his own health care reform plan, Maya Rockeymoore from Global Policy Solutions, and Ezra Klein from The American Prospect.

Hacker spent a great deal of time talking about the underinsured -- those that have health insurance but have high deductibles and will delay treatment if they're sick. He talked about how these underinsured, presumably a politically successful demographic, look "just like us." The underinsured make more than $50,000 a year, are white, employed full time, and are well educated.

Rockeymoore, a woman of color, spent a great deal of time talking about how disproportionate health care costs are. She noted as she began Global Policy Solutions, she became an employer and noted that health care costs for women were much higher than those for men. Additionally, she noted that whites have the lowest uninsured rate in the country. Blacks are much more dependent on government-provided health care than whites. "The health care system," Rockeymoore said, "is broken."

Klein (full disclosure: Ezra is a friend of mine), fully endorses Hacker's plan, but notes that Hacker's component of controlling costs will be a "tough sell" in Congress, especially the Senate where "you need 60 votes." Klein called methods of discriminating "crazy."

Hacker Rockeymoore, and Klein are all saying that health care, as it is today, is an injustice and it is, at it's core, about a kind of discrimination. Insurance companies, while going after a higher profit margin, are trying to minimize risks by saying no to those with pre-existing conditions, with lack of employment, with less of a social safety net. Usually, this means the poor, the non-white, and the poorly educated. These are the ones that are paying the greatest costs for our broken health care system.