You might be onto something there, "Sanity". ;-) Yes, I think it is the big insurance lobbyists, the professional medical associations, and Big Pharma (the pharmaceutical industry) that have created a situation where health care is way more expensive (and far less effective) than it ought to be...whether it's private health or done through the government plans. Big Pharma can't make much money if everybody gets well! It works better for them if everybody is chronically sick all the time with something or other...so why would they encourage people to adopt a better lifestyle, get more exercise, and stop eating processed garbage that makes them sick?

We've come a long way from the freedom and common sense and tried and true home remedies that governed people's lives on this continent several generations ago. We have surrendered our personal sovereignty to a bunch of high tech quacks, in my opinion.