Tim Noah Write SO I dont Have to

Please Please Please Read everything Tim Noah at Slate writes about the Healthcare System and its ongoing congressional slog.

A quote from his most recent article.

That, at any rate, is what Allan Brett sets forth in an essay posted July 29 on the New England Journal of Medicine's Web site. Brett makes the case that single-payer insurance (whose proponents, we now learn, include the president's former doctor) is not only superior to America's market-based system; it's also superior at serving the paramount value of that system, which Brett identifies as freedom of choice. He writes:

Incremental reforms preserving the private insurance industry and employer-based insurance would probably perpetuate the restricted choice of health care providers that many Americans already encounter: private plans typically limit access to certain physicians or hospitals, and physicians often refuse to accept certain plans. In contrast, single-payer proposals eliminate those restrictions.

This is quite true. Under a single-payer system, the government doesn't care which doctor or hospital you use because none is going to be more expensive than the others. Granted, the government may deny choice in tests and treatments, but Brett judges that reality as no more restrictive than with market-based medicine; the only difference is whether the gatekeeper is public or private

Go read it and his other articles:

http://www.slate.com/id/2223911/