First. Health outcomes are such a subjective measure. Depending on what measure you use such outcomes do not always show that these other countries have better healthcare systems. Take the NIH in the UK. I don't have the data exactly in front of me, and I can't tell you which cancers, but the 5-year survival rates for people with certain cancers are much higher in the United States time in the UK.

The next question I have is how exactly is this $9,000 per person number derived? Is the cost of pharmaceutical and technological developments put into this number? If so is that what you're proposing that we cut?

Next let's talk about the shortage of doctors in many of these countries that you cite are spending less per person. it is pretty much common knowledge that in the UK for example, there is a massive shortage of doctors and they're constantly trying to recruit people from other countries to go into medicine in the UK. If the US goes to a single-payer system we will face the same shortages as people will not want to spend 10 to 15 years in college to earn low six-figure salaries.

Never mind the fact that many European countries enforce price caps on things like pharmaceuticals. Americans often pay more for the same pharmaceutical 2 offset the losses in European countries.

And the fact is is that most of the innovation in medicine that has happened in the world has come from the United States. This is not because we have more altruistic doctors, but because there is money to be made.

Going to some socialized system will destroy innovation, bring about worse outcomes, increase wait times an absolute result in health care rationing which is one of the ways in which these countries keep their costs down.

Does this mean that I want to maintain the status quo? Of course not. There is definitely a lot of waste in the system. But I contend that it is not private Enterprise that has done this but rather government intervention and regulations I have helped spike the cost of healthcare across the country.

As Ronald Reagan once said, "In this present crisis government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem."