Both political parties got us into this mess by opening the doors to health care and airline monopolies. Health-care conglomerates now dominate medicine. The Plutocratic oath has replaced the Hippocratic oath. The federal government let it happen. Neither the DOJ nor the FTC have challenged mergers or acquisitions between managed-care insurers.
Concentrated power is the problem, yet neither party is willing to tackle that issue.
So we are left with a series of bills of rights. Not that there aren't some good in these bills. The White House wants patients to have the right to sue HMOs for malpractice. Insurers argue that allowing patients to sue would cause medical rates to skyrocket. In 1997 Texas passed legislation allowing its residents to sue HMOs has not seen a flood of lawsuits.