Is that there is absolutely no evidence that turning a program over to the government will result in more efficiency, better services, and lower costs, and barrels of historical evidence that it will do exactly the opposite.

Your basic premise is flawed, and constantly referring back to it isn't working.

When third parties, public or private, pick up most of the tab, prices go up. That's inevitable. When you break down the health spending numbers, you find that out-of-pocket spending has gone from 33 percent of that total in 1970 to 12 percent in 2006. If you want to see costs controlled, market forces have to be introduced, slowly and carefully, back into the system. Insurance has to be loosened up so more options are available.

Since Democratic politicians are fundamentally opposed to the entire concept of markets in this arena, it isn't going to happen.