Rockefeller Looking to Grant Open Source (Linux Journal)

I've seen health care work quite well as a free market when I was young. But then four things happened. 1) People began to view health insurance a right (i.e. something you should not have to work for). 2) People now believe that their health is worth every penny of someone else's money, but not a bit of their own (due to the fact that most people get health insurance as a "benefit" of their job [ they don't directly pay for it, so they don't notice the monetary cost ] ). 3) Ambulance-chasing dirtbag lawyers with high-profile, massive settlements causing doctors' liability insurance costs to skyrocket. 4) Doctors' offices needing to hire large amounts of staff to handle the paperwork that they need to file to just get paid for work that they've already done.

The government running health care will not fix any of these problems, but will create new and much worse ones. It's really quite simple. That which you do not have to work for will not be appreciated.