> That's why some think that a national health care system that is designed primarily around effectiveness of distribution of payment, rather than extracting ma

> That's why some think that a national health care system that is designed primarily around effectiveness of distribution of payment, rather than extracting maximum profit from the flow of money between patient and provider, is the moral and effective solution. Why would we expect the incentives inherent in putting health care under the monopolistic control of those who seek political power to be any more favorable than those manifest in the current situation of apparent oligopolistic control by both profit-seekers and political-power-seekers? Where would this solution leave those who just want to obtain services directly from service providers, without any political or financial middlemen either taking a cut, usurping their agency, or homogenizing the market?