If this has already been diaried I'll delete, but it shouldn't be ignored:
How American Health Care Killed My Father
It's not the expected "murder by spreadsheet" horror story: the author, a business executive (who describes himself as a Democrat), builds a strong case that American health care sucks so badly and costs so much because the incentives are in all the wrong places. He argues that if consumers were at the center of health care financing, instead of the government and big insurance companies, providers would speedily find ways to improve care and reduce costs.
This isn't a simplistic argument that "the magic of the free market will cure all our ills". Yes, there's some of that, and it will no doubt provoke howls of disapproval here. But, as the author notes, our current system, wherein we twist ourselves into pretzels trying to sustain the illusion that "someone else" is paying for our care, leads to massive inefficiencies.
Well worth a read for its original and thought-provoking ideas, and a valuable contribution to the debate IMO.