Unsurprisingly, there are very few liberals in the industry.
While some aspects of the US Healthcare system could have used a little tune-up, I don't think it was broken.
I'm self-employed, a great-grandfather too young to qualify for medicare and too "rich" to qualify for public assistance--IOW, I pay my bills, but carry catastrophic health insurance to take care of anything really big. Thankfully, I'm fairly healthy and not generally accident prone. While I cannot say I have always been satisfied with individual physicians, I'm still here.
If I waited until something broke before I fixed it I wouldn't be in the oil business very long. To keep all my wells running at they're peak production takes constant maintenance and a watchful eye. Keeping your oil levels where they're suppose to be, grease your bearings often and replace worn parts before you have a complete failure. The same could apply to health care business that has ignored the demands for pre-maintenance, ignored bad or substandard parts and has let the entire industry's production fall to levels that now need a costly and major rebuild.
So where do you start?
You replace old worn out parts, you service your wells to bring back production and cease certain methods that eat up your profits. Once you have everything running at peak production, you fire the SOB’s that let it fall into such a dilapidated state.
A little grease, oil and a vigilant eye goes a long way.
When I took over these wells our production was 13,500 barrels per month, the same wells now produce over 13,750 barrels per month by doing nothing more than a little preventative maintenance and constantly trying to reduce operating cost. I've since lowered production costs by 10% and raised production by 250 barrels per month.
So I guess I'll have to disagree with the old “If it ain't broke don't fix it” standard.