I’m not sure the “government” is the major culprit here, there are *huge* differences in productivity (cost for outcome) which appear to be related to other drivers.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0809794
Actually, I’d go along with you halfway. For a long time we’ve been saying that if the industry doesn’t get it’s act together and start agreeing on some standards, and getting rid of what we call “silos of care” (like silos of information?), Uncle Government is going to have to step in and do it for us, and nobody will like what that ends up looking like.
If only the democrat congress had been willing to listen to the industry and the people and do what was right instead of rubberstamping something that the socializt left excreted without even reading it, in fine politburo style. They really needed to have lots and lots of debate on this, lots of committee hearings, a lot more input than a bunch of proported docs in cheap white prop coats standing behind that man in the People’s rose garden,