I think the cost of health care would change a lot for the better if we pulled some of the hand of government off of it. For instance, health insurers are allowed to collude to a large degree on what they charge for various levels of coverage. That's not something we would normally allow, but in health care, that's god with Congress. What would happen to prices in that case? I'd be willing to bet that they'd drop some.

However, there is a case to be made, presented in part in this post, that the Left is a far more insidious beast than they would have you believe….

Socialized health care will be a tragedy of epic proportions. The sad thing is, we already have health benefits available through the State for people in the lower income brackets. In Arizona we have arizona AHCCCS, which covers the uninsured in the lower income brackets.

I think deregulation of the health care industry would allow middle-income bracket Americans access to affordable plans that they could purchase rather than relying on their employers. There are many, many options that this country could pursue working alongside private industry rather than supplanting it completely.

Ah well, here comes the Nanny State…