Dan Munro

"Single-pricing" is the real issue. In other words, we're having the wrong debate, creating a huge distraction.

No, the system is designed to be this messed up. So many people profit from the mess, and they hope the complexity will prevent hard questions.

. . . they have little choice. They come out of med school and residencies with so much debt that they almost have to enter lucrative specialties.

The argument that free care is dispensed through emergency rooms is flat-out false. The costs are simply rolled in elsewhere by the hospitals.