A good diagnosis. Incredibly, more of the same. The AMA's main line is that if you could choose among more than just the one or two insurance plans your employer offers, competition would keep the insurance companies in line. Because you rather than the employer would be signing the checks, you would want to shop around for the plan that looks the best but costs the least. Not for patients, hospitals or even doctors.
Every dime is useless overhead.
For managing the money. For telling us we can't have care when we need it. Make the government everyone's principal insurer, as it is already in Canada and many other countries and with respect to the elderly here. Medicare's overhead has consistently been the lowest in the American system, and it interferes the least with patient choice or physician decisions. Dickey, who was ready for that question, asserted that governments everywhere and Canada's in particular are cutting back on their single-payer insurance systems in the face of rising costs.