[Lizavetta]

The health care system is so out of whack because of gov't intrusion that more and more people are happy with the idea of nationalizing it.

Isn't it amazing....you look at the things the government runs and wonder why people want the government to "take over" more things. Veterans' hospitals, government schools, government "services" (DMV for example) ridden with inefficient, unfireable bureaucrats (IRS for example).

And people scream for government to 'manage' their health care. How stupid can we be? How could we delude ourselves into thinking that the quality will be anything other than crap?

[chiller]

When anyone says they want "the government" to take over, or "the government should do something", I ask them if they enjoyed their last visit to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, or (insert ANY govt. office here).

Then ask them what the hell they've been smokin'.

[Yardstick]

Totally agree with you.

The health care "crisis" is the result of government tinkering, and the solution isn't more government tinkering. My suspicion -- based on the observation that the government is good at screwing things up, especially things that it has no right to be fiddling with in the first place -- is that an MSA scheme will just lead to more problems.

The only solution is to get the government out of health care, so that the law of cause and effect can get back into it. Then we'll have a rational health care system again.