OK, so back to the subject of the article.
Your average American thinks of their Doctors and their contracted insurance company (if they have one) when you say 'healthcare'.
Yet, the healthcare industry is made up of Doctors, Hospitals, Insurance companies, Pharmaceutical companies, Medical supply companies, and sundry other third parties. The *ONLY* group there that doesn't have someone speaking for them are Doctors. IF the AMA or someone else is speaking up, I'm sure not hearing it.
It demonstrates how ignorant your average American is of how healthcare is delivered if their solution is that the Government MAKE a Doctor take their payer insurance company]. How would that same person like the Government dictate who they work for, or who cuts their hair, or who sells them their clothes - and the Government says that the third party dictates raises, hair styles, or what clothes they get. Clueless.
Several erudite references to Rome, and while I am still slugging through the multi-volume "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire", the signs are that we share much in common with Rome's decline.
