I, for one, look forward to the day every American can afford good quality health care in America…we’d all benefit from a healthier, happier population of productive citizens and that’s what it should be all about…not the political football where whoever wins the debate wins the next election regardless of the merits of their arguments.

Also, I have had very good experiences with the DMV and the Post Office–getting a physical object delivered in 3 days to the opposite coast for 44 cents is not bad, and as a mail order retailer, I use Priority Mail all the time with great success. Then there are schools, highways, police, fire department, regulated utilities (remember what happened with Enron?), etc. Not all the government does is bad. We’ll leave the IRS aside for the moment

I should stop now but just one more thing…the uninsured need to be brought into the system not just for their own good, but for all of us. Think of it as a social responsibility, like paying your taxes and having car insurance. I know, there’s the IRS again. But without it we wouldn’t have a lot of the services we take for granted.

This last category of truly uninsurable people needs to be addressed; some way to extend coverage to them should be found. However it is not necessary to upend the entire health care system to accomplish this. And patently fraudulent statistics should not be thrown around in support of overhauling the system.

Before you throw in behind a scheme to nationalize the health care industry, think about your experiences with the DMV, the Transportation Security Administration, the IRS, the Post Office and all of your other encounters with heavily unionized work forces. If you think that is a good model, by all means support govt healthcare. Otherwise you should think twice about what is being proposed.