STOP BLAMING THE INSURERS (reprinted from SLATE.com)

Here's the premise:

The debate about health care tends to be informed by three notions about health insurance:

1) The profits of private insurers are so big that cutting them out would meaningfully lower costs.

2) Private insurance clearly costs more than a government-run system such as Medicare.

3) Mergers that have created a small number of huge and powerful insurers increase health care costs.

None of these is true(read on).