Meanwhile we can look to many industries which are allowed to compete in a more free market and see tremendous innovation and lowered costs.Meanwhile in the real world the healthcare insurance market has contracted massively to avoid competition. If you don't believe me, google it.
Here's how somebody else puts it:
http://www.harvardir.org/blog/?p=583
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
