Whoa.

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because where will you go?

Okay, aside from a riff on the sequel that ruined my enjoyment of a pretty good film--this comes to the problem of Muir, and the Right's philosophy on healthcare. Our system is one of the worst in the world, even if we do have some of the best doctors, and it's largely because of the "free market" insurance model, which is a bloated ineffiecient mess where the ultimate goal from the insurer's side is NOT to treat as many people as possible. Most people would see that as a major flaw in a system that's ideally supposed to do the exact opposite. But the Muir's of the world blind themselves to that reality to blather on about choice, and socialism and the American spirit, denying the existance of a major problem, and then patting themselves on the back for saving the rest of us blind sheep. The sad fact is--the free market model just doesn't work for health care. It can't because "choice" is not really a factor--people don't choose to get sick. They just do. And while they can then "choose" not to get treatment, the results tend to be bad if they don't--for them, and often for those around them. All the libertarian bullshit about free markets being the magical solution to everything can't change that fact--or the fact that a society where a large portion of the population can't afford health care is a society that's skirting the edges of a catastrophe.

But Muir doesn't see it that way. The Free Market is perfect, and if some people aren't getting covered, well, that just shows they don't deserve coverage.