Reply #2: The Major Problem With Our Current Health Care System...

[evilkumquat]

...is that it is being run for profit.

Granted doctors should not be expected to work for free, but a huge problem is that an industry that should be (at its heart) purely altruistic—HELPING PEOPLE—is being run in a manner to maximize profits... something that helps no one except those reaping the cash.

Barring a huge shift in the mentality of those seeking a career in medicine (unlikely, because 95% of those in med school are in it for longterm wealth; the other 5% because they are on a crusade to stop whatever it was that killed their mom, dad, brother, sister or best friend-see whatever crappy movie is probably playing on Lifetime right now), universal governmental insurance programs with penalties against doctors who overcharge may be the only solution.

Barring that, everyone who has ever lost everything due to the costs associated with a major medical catastrophe should band together as a desperate group of desperadoes going from town to town, barging into hospitals and private clinics, dragging the doctors outside and lynching them.

It would make a great movie: Uninsured.

Clint Eastwood could direct it.

Evil Kumquat