When you're in a hole, stop digging.
That cliche has some wisdom when applied to health care policy. Writing for the group Americans for Free Choice in Medicine, Richard E. Ralston says:
The status quo in American health care is indefensible—an expensive regulatory and bureaucratic mess. What that calls for, however, is not more layers of regulation and complicated mandates.
Ralston then offers seven principles for reforming health care. My favorite, perhaps: generous tax exemptions to promote charity care.