I heard a very interesting talk radio show on medical reform. I need to look it up and see if it can be heard online. It was on Insight radio on XM 121.

They discussed many facets of medical reform but the one I found most interesting was the lack of patient outcome assessment. Basically, doctors are rated by "patient satisfaction surveys". No one is actually rating doctors based on their successful treatments, only on whether or not they are keeping their patients happy. This is a major contributor to doctors writing prescriptions they may not otherwise write. It has nothing to do with laziness as someone put it. It's about keeping your patient satisfaction rating up so insurance companies will continue to do business with you. It's definitely a broken system that needs to be addressed but I could easily see it leading to more bureaucracy.

"When there was no fowl, we ate crawdad, when there was no crawdad, we ate sand."

"YOU ATE SAND!" - Raising Arizona