As America struggles to extend health-care coverage while curbing health-care costs, we face a decision that is more important than whether we have a public-insurance option, more important than whether we will have a single-payer system in the long run or a mixture of public and private insurance, as we do now.

NEWYORKER: The Cost Conundrum

To a system where the government finances all of that, but the actual providers are a mixture of government owned, mutuals, charities, for profit companies, who then compete in the market place for custom and that government money.

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