TWO PRETTY GOOD LINES

David Cay Johnston has a very good article on health care in Newsweek and these two points (at least) are worth repeating:

1)

We don't have a free market for health-care services. If we did, we would see a narrow range of prices for the same service.

2) 

Canada, Germany, and France each spend about 11.5 percent of their economy on health care, compared to 17.6 percent in the U.S.
We could have eliminated the income tax in 2010 had we adopted the Canadian, German, or French health-care systems.