Thank-you for all that you have done to reveal the statistical equivalent of ink-blot tests put forward by the folks at Dartmouth for what they are – profound distortions of reality that only look real when viewed through the prism of their ideological pre-commitments.

It has been clear from the get-go that the nominal goal, reducing regional variations in the cost and quality of care has been a pretext for a larger goal. That goal, of course, has been transfer control of medical care into the hands of a centralized bureaucracy where the only people “truly” qualified to administer it – academic partisans of single-payer medicine – can shape medicine to their liking.

All of your efforts here will likely be for naught if the current before Congress passes the Senate. I implore you – please, please, please pick up your phone and do everything in your power to persuade anyone that you know that is in a position to influence the passage of this bill to oppose it.

You know as well as anyone what the stakes are, and the hour is getting late.