Then allow me to deliver a parthian shot: ;-)

Seems you don't like the current system but you don't want it reformed- or you do want it reformed, but you want it placed into the hands of the bureaucrats by which I mean HMO and insurer bureaucrats. Seems you want to perpetuate and increase their intervention between you and your physician even knowing that their motive is short-term benefit for shareholders, not you. We've already seen the capabilities of businesspeople to wreck a market by focusing on profit. You blamed government for that because they relaxed banking regulations: if government hands more control to private insurers, will you blame government again if it turns bad? Will you assert that they shouldn't have changed the existing system whose faults suddenly will be forgotten? Or will you expect government to learn from its mistakes and start taking steps before it becomes a disaster costing trillions?