Your site does credit to the thinking man! Mr. Warshawsky's article asking about high-cost of health care hits the nail on the head for health care, but much, much more.He writes, "But what about the argument -- which has become commonplace in public policy circles since the days of Hillarycare -- that the main reason health care costs are so high in this country is because we pay for our medical care through third-party payment plans, i.e., insurance (both public and private)?  Washington Post and Newsweek columnist Robert Samuelson makes this argument in his most recent column."As I see it and especially from the vantage point of working and living in more than one nation and culture, much of modern government can be called a system of "third-party payment plans" from healthcare to education to even the arts -- my field.With so much money going through middle men's hands, some is siphoned off immediately for their "costs." Secondly, the...(Read Full Post)