Lest anyone think I'm a communist, I want to make it clear that I don't think a single-payor system is the sole solution to the health care problems in the US.
I don't, however, think it's the Bogey Man that many in our business think it is. I have as many horror stories from HMOs as I do from Medicaid, perhaps more. Politics later, perhaps.
In the meantime, we awake the sleeping giants! One intrepid reader forwarded me this awesome piece of information [now pay-per-view] from AISHealth. I went one minor step forward and have actually added up the results. Check the original [ppv] for the details. The next time you're writing that HMO a letter, you might want to reference this data!  I thought of making the table all pretty, but I've got work to do!