As I read C. Burke King’s Sunday Commentary last week—“Government Health Plan Would Hurt Quality, Innovation, Choice”—I wondered what health care system he had been living in until I glanced at the bottom line and realized he is the president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. King asserts that the extension of a government plan, such as Medicare for all Americans, would hurt quality, innovation, and choice. After 29 years practicing family medicine, I will have to call him on these claims. His fear is that “a government plan would destabilize the market, increase cost of private coverage, and reduce quality of care,“ and that “private insurers would not be able to compete on an un-level playing field.“