Supporting the contention that more competition is needed in health care:
Healthy competition makes the doctor a better doctor and the patient a better patient. In the insurance / government directed healthcare delivery system, a mudpie is a mudpie. Every neurosurgeon is paid the same under medicare to operate on a brain tumor. Not only is there no real competition to do a better job .. there is NO means for a patient to step out a pay for “more care”. The reason that plastic surgery is competitive is ONLY because it is not covered under most health insurance policies allowing for a market based competitive economy.
