Michael Moore's Latest Target: Your HMO

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One of my biggest concerns with universal healthcare is that I am completely unconvinced that our government, or any government for that matter, can adequately manage what is probably the most complex market there is. Despite what lots of people say all these universal healthcare countries do not have some type of panacae system. They all have problems in some way. And they ARE NOT cheap. People pay insane amounts of taxes for them.

Our system is just as broke, if not more, but it is broken because of so many things. The issues are mind-boggling in their complexity. And the solutions will have to be even more complex and drastic to fix it. Plain and simple it would be a program never rivaled in US history and based on the empirical evidence our government cannot handle it. Conversely, while private industry has screwed the pooch so far, I do think that with proper laws and regulations as well as effective oversight the private industry CAN fix the system. And way faster than the government could.

Some people look at this being a for profit industry and think that is bad. I tend to think the fact that it is for profit is the only thing that can fix it. Free market, for profit industry is the best way to motivate an efficient system. The problem is we need to figure out how to change it so that the profits are made without reducing service. Consolidation and managed care as the culprits because they have effectively removed actual competition from the market. We need to make the system competitive again. That should increase service and decrease cost. How this gets done? I have no idea and I guess no one else does either.