View original postA better solution would be either moving to single-payer (i.e., socialized medicine) or setting up collective bargaining units - mandatory ones, in fact - by region, that force manufacturers and suppliers to charge only set prices, that then set what margins hospitals can add and which then set the rates insurers can charge, like what is done with utilities. That, along with malpractice reform and a few other changes, could finally achieve what has eluded Obama thus far - a reduction in how much we pay for medical care.