Clearly, PNHP is a large group of doctors supporting a government single-payer system. But if their research is correct, adoption of such a system may be justified. It certainly can't be any worse than the collection of alarming and offensive ideas included under HR 3200.

Here's why the doctors support a single-payer system...

...private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $400 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans....

I've seen other estimates that the inclusion of medical tort reform would save another $210 billion per year. If my arithmetic is right, that's a little more than a 50% cut in the cost of healthcare as it stands now.

What are we waiting for? Who knows better about this stuff, Congress or the doctors? At least the doctors don't have lobbyists stuffing their pockets with money while stuffing their heads with legislative proposals.