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Geoff,
So, your brief sampling of H1-B users answers my question: how much whinging would there be if Congress proposed an auction process for H1-Bs. The companies that pay well would probably be OK trading the cost of winning the auction with the cost and inconvenience of the current system. But universities (who pay peanuts for their H1-B post-docs) would likely raise a hew and cry. I wonder if there could be some happy compromise: more H1-Bs in exchange for an easy (but more expensive) process to get them.