I know my responses sound like I'm prosteletyzing for national healthcare, but that's not my intent. I'm simply trying to respond with facts, many of which we've already discussed on this forum.

In response to your concern that no one--I presume you mean the government--could oversee a system of national healthcare successfully, our government is already doing that. Thru programs like Medicare, VA insurance, Medicaid, the National Health Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the system of Army and Navy hospitals, etc., the federal government already provides health insurance to almost 50% of Americans. In exchanges on various threads here in this forum, we've pretty clearly determined that almost no one who participates in these programs would trade them for a policy from a for-profit private insurer. Most feel that their costs would increase and the degree to which they could rely on private insurance in the future would be less certain. In almost all respects users are satisfied with the care provided by those programs--far more satisfied than many who have experienced problems with for-profit insurers.

No one is saying that any of the government programs operate without fault--they certainly do. But to base our personal conclusions on what the solution to our healthcare crisis might be, it's probably an overstatement to say that the government is incapable of running such programs.