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With the exception of spending money, making promises they can't keep and using the term "The American People," our government officials don't do anything. And what they do, they get wrong. Now there is talk about universal health care again.

Michael Moore's 'Sicko' makes the argument that our current system of healthcare is broken (whatever that means!) and he showed some people getting 'free' care in Cuba and France. The politicians take these and other anecdotal stories to heart and then try to do something so it looks like they are working. And, maybe, if they can get their friends, donors, spouses in on the action of creating a federal medical bureacracy, all the better. It's a classic case of create a problem, solve the created problem and then look good because the problem has been solved.

And as Americans, we feel that sense of entitlement. (i.e.-The French get free, quality healthcare and I have a $20 copay with my HMO. Boohoo.) This is not to say that the American healthcare system is perfect. It's not. And, eventually in a future post, I'll argue it's the government interference in healthcare that makes it worse off. But, no matter what we have now, I guarantee it's better than anything 100 overpaid Senators could come up with.

Less than a year ago, it was reported that the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center was dirty, crumbling and vermin ridden. A hospital for wounded veterans? Run by the government? Providing substandard care in substandard conditions? Oh yeah. Read this or that. The government can't take care of one hospital. How do politicians think the government will take care of hundreds of hospitals?

They can but the service will be poor and the cost will be huge. After 9/11, the government took over all screening of passengers getting on planes. The lines grew longer, a 'Security Tax' was added to all plane tickets and yet we are no safer than we were on 9/10/2001. There is no free with universal health care. Someone always has to pay. And I guarantee the service will be marginal at best.

To think a government run healthcare system will be better is foolish. They feds can't run the post office right, manage who's coming into the country or track Social Security recipients. I certainly don't want any government involved with my health.