Some fresh competition might be just what US health care needs

Industrialists creating a separate health alliance to protect their employees out of frustration with both the quality of care and the rapidly upwardly spiraling costs — there’s a story ripped from this week’s headlines.
But doesn’t it also sound familiar? During World War II, that’s what Oakland shipbuilder Henry Kaiser and his executives did, first by putting doctors and hospital beds in a hut on their Liberty Ship construction site and later expanding Kaiser Perm