Here you have a cartel system in which individual customers, hospitals, and doctors alike are at the mercy of an unaccountable industry that can deny coverage or fix prices as it pleases, resulting in the crappy or even openly threatening service and ballooning costs that necessitated the call for health care reform in the first place. And all that is because of one law, and this law is the one that none of the five reigning Democratic committee chairmen thought prudent to touch as they “took on” the problem of health care reform.
