Michael on Fire

There's nothing like watching Michael Moore go off on Wolf Blitzer.

Here's what set him off.

The "Health-Car Analyst" in the story works for Deloitte US -- a major financial company, and his "facts," while authoritative-sounding, are actually ambiguous in nature, such as his statement of a percentage of household income that goes to health care costs, without any comparison to other systems, or taking into account employer costs.

One of the reasons I'm for a single-payer system in the U.S. with health care on demand is a purely capitalistic one. America is losing jobs to other countries because corporations would rather pay higher taxes but not the full burden of health insurance for their employees, hence counties with universal health coverage are more attractive to them.

I love Michael Moore because he fights like he means it, like you would in a bar discussion, for something that will take massive public support to make happen. Will Americans stay divided and fearful on national health care, or will they organized and successfully scare the politicians off the health company tit and give us what every other industrialized nation has?

And that is freedom from having to worry about your health insurance. Before the other countries leapfrog further ahead of us.