Wow, Lisa just surprised me! Holding public hearings is a great idea ... provided it is set up to allow input from Americans and not just to propagandize us. We the people should be allowed to make decisions on our own. Obamacare ignores economic principles, which is why it's failing, but more than that, it was put in place by utterly ignoring the American people. If the government spent the next year getting information from the American people -- not doctors, not the AMA, not the insurance companies -- but the people, they might find a way to reform medical care so that it actually works without having government bureaucrats deciding whether we are allowed a hip transplant or treatment to slow the progression of a terminal disease. I suspect, most Americans would prefer health care systems that is between them and their doctor without the government involved. But they don't know that because they don't listen to us.