Driving down the cost of health care: What would actually work? - Healthcare Futurist: Joe Flower

Driving down the cost of health care: What would actually work? - Healthcare Futurist: Joe Flower: "If competition actually drives the cost of health care up rather than down, what would bring lower costs? What provisions in a “health reform act” would actually drop costs in health care? Let’s leave aside for the moment all the myriad other arguments - some might be seen as too much government intrusion, some would destroy the health plan industry, some would be cripplingly difficult for providers, and so on - and just focus on cost. Given the real structure of health care markets in the United States at this moment, what could be written into federal law and regulation that would actually reduce cost?
Some of these changes are massive, some would be invisible to those outside the industry, but all could be legislated or regulated, and all would “bend the curve” toward lower costs. Choose any you like, though some are “and” choices, others are “or” choices:"