Opinion: Government price-fixing will put healthcare on life support

Congress is back from summer recess and returning to its usual business of forcing socialism onto the American health care system – guided, of course, by truckloads of lobbying cash. This time, so-called progressive groups that support crony capitalism are seizing on the issue of surprise medical billing to push for widespread government rate setting. If they succeed, it would compromise the few remaining market forces keeping U.S. health care afloat.