My comment on the meme still stands though. Government cannot improve on our health care system in any way, shape, or form. Free Market Competition is the only thing that will improve it. Take away the rope and chains of regulation; let the 1700 Insurance Companies compete in all states, to offer the best program at the lowest price, and there won’t be any price gouging for long. Insurance companies know this that’s why they want want to set the terms of who gets health care and who is denied, and they want to bill the National Government for the cost of premiums, an idea worse that what we have already.

Take Medicare. Medicare Insurance pays he cost of treatment that the doctor prescribes of deems necessary. Medicare pays, but makes no medical decisions as to what is medically required. THE DOCTOR DOES. Because he has attended 8 years of medical school and has his professional experience to guide him, including all the supplemental education he/she acquires on a daily basis after leaving medical school.

If this crap passes, it will be up to the supreme court to knock it down based on anti-trust (monopoly) legislation already passed and on the books.