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My two bits:
I'm coming to the conclusion that insurance is an extremely poor method of allocating health care. Insurance companies are a third party standing between patients and doctors. Worst are the for-profit corporations: they have no interest in patients' well being. There's more, but long story short I'm opposed to insurance as the means by which health care is extended (and worse, mandatory insurance).
On the other hand, I work for a large federal government agency, and I dread the idea of a big government-run program. Big government-run programs are wasteful. [blanket statement] The only way the federal government gets anything done is by throwing enough money at it. [/blanket statement] And again, you'd have a third party standing between patients and doctors. ...Hmm. The only form of government health care I might accept would be programs run by the states themselves. If a citizen didn't like a program he or she could always move. Competition of sorts.
P.S. GA Russell, you've pretty well described my situation. Thanks, well put.
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