Comment: We know how to control costs and provide affordable healthcare to every American citizen. But we don't because conservatives and conservatism continue their rabid protection of our private insurance-based debacle of a system, the most inefficient in the world. There's a reason why nobody anywhere on the planet has ever uttered the words, "let's base our healthcare system on the American model"?

Every single variation of a single-payer system has proven to be more efficient than ours but conservatives call it "socialism" so no way no how are we doin' that. And once an idea gets planted in the conservative mind nothing, not facts not irrefutable and overwhelming evidence, is going change it. 

Single-payer is the solution, not deregulation, not selling insurance across state lines, not tort reform. Unfortunately healthcare reform in American has met the immovable object: the conservative mind.