Half measures definitely will not fix the problem. The only way we can make progress on this issue is to fix the problem of transparency on costs, billing, and

Half measures definitely will not fix the problem. The only way we can make progress on this issue is to fix the problem of transparency on costs, billing, and payments. Right now it's impossible to make any sort of realistic policy proposals because we don't have access to the fundamental data. One thing that concerns me about "medicare for all" is that from a lot of things I've read hospitals that have too many medicare patients go out of business -- what's really going on? Also, another key issue we need to address is the fundamental costs; we can perhaps lower the bar needed to administer healthcare -- if the error rate goes up a little but is offset by access and earlier interventions we could big improvements. Right now we are pretending that we have one standard of care and it's high and expensive; but we really have two high or almost nothing. Perhaps theres room for a medium quality of care that is backstop so that no one gets nothing.