Say Yes to Heidi's Healthcare

...the country of Switzerland has achieved universal coverage and excellent health care outcomes at costs 40 percent lower than ours, as a percentage of GDP, without a public program or government-run market. Instead, ferocious competition among the country's 87 private insurers has driven their general and administrative expenses down to 5 percent, a percentage lower than Medicare's.

The key to Switzerland's success is that it is consumer-driven - people buy their own health insurance. No employers or degrading government programs are involved. Instead, the poor receive money from the government so they can buy the same insurance as the average Swiss. The sick among the Swiss are not discriminated against either - the private insurers reinsure each other so that sick enrollees pay the same prices as the average person.