The situation we now have is already worse than the one of which you speak. Tort reform is one way to address cost control. The insurance companies have used malpractice suits as an excuse to boost insurance premiums every chance the have gotten. The doctors also are practicing defensive medicine....ordering additional tests, MRI's, Ct scans, etc. to cover themselves.

I think it is rather disingenuous for a member of a profession which has made literally hundreds of millions of dollars suing doctors and hospitals into bankruptcy to point the finger of blame at the insurance industry for the present state of the healthcare system in this country.  I agree with Rob on the tort reform issue.

I challenge you to give me one example of anything that government does better or more efficiently than private sector industries. Robert made an excellent point with the example of the $100.00 hammer.  Freedom and free enterprise, on the other hand, have done more to raise the base line of human existence than any other system ever devised by man.  That's the difference between the world that fails and the world that works.  Government is not the solution, it's the problem, and more government intervention will only make it worse.