Douglas, this is the same conversation I have with my cousin. He's a neurologist ... a researcher for a big Lower 48 research hospital. He gets paid a salary, so he doesn't really care about reimbursement rates. But he'll research ANYTHING if you ask him a question and he has said repeatedly, that it is not doctors driving up the cost of medical care ... else the hospital where he works would be one-third of what it currently costs. He says it's the regulations first and foremost that are driving costs by creating monopolies. We need more medical schools that can offer training at affordable tuition, but regulations limit the number of medical schools, so tuition is high, so there are not enough doctors graduating. Hundreds of regulations have poured out of DC in the last few years, also driving up the cost.

If we go single-payer, we will all see incredible increases in our taxes and incredible reduction of care.