The simplest, best cure for our health-care crisis.

Could national health insurance (NHI) cap the explosive rise in medical costs and at the same time give everyone access to health care? More and more people believe so, and for the first time in 20 years NHI proposals are being taken seriously in Washington. But the author contends NHI proponents have misread the causes for America's health-care crisis, and have been misled in their search for a solution by the example of the Canadian health system. All we really need she says, is a home-grown reform that's surprisingly simple and remarkably inexpensive.