The chairman and chief medical officer of Aetna took to the pages of the Washington Post on Tuesday to offer their perspective on health care reform. They were motivated, they said, by the increasing number of Americans going without health insurance, a concern presumably unrelated to SiCKO, Michael Moore’s new and very popular film on [...]

I’ve seen Michael Moore’s Sicko, and liked it. He had a couple of points to make — lots of people in the U.S. suffer from inadequate or no health care, and the impact of our system has a repressive effect on more than just our health — and he made them effectively.
I’ve since read [...]

Americans die younger and spend more years disabled than our counterparts in Canada and Europe. Our infant mortality rate is higher, too. And yet, even though the most common objections to nationalized health care from its opponents in the U.S. are that it’s too expensive, too restrictive and too inefficient, we spend way more money [...]

The first person we meet in Sicko, Michael Moore’s new film about health care in America, is George W. Bush, who tells us that “too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their—their love with women all across this country” (because trial lawyers are hounding them out of business). The second person we meet is Adam, [...]

People in countries with universal health care live longer and healthier lives than people in the United States. Their infant mortality rates are lower. No one goes bankrupt or loses their home because of unpaid medical bills. No one has to make a choice between food and medicine or between rent and health insurance payments. [...]

Archimedes said, “Give me a big enough lever and I will move the world.” Of course a big lever requires a lot of force, and when it comes to fixing America’s insane approach to health care, the only force big enough to move a massive pile of politicians, doctors, insurers and health care industrialists off [...]