In their article on national health insurance, Woolhandler and Himmelstein1 are right for a number of reasons:
United States health care has high-tech excellence and caring, competent "providers," but it's uniquely chaotic, wasteful, unfair, and frustrating. Forty million Americans—most of whom are hardworking families—are having to "go bare." That's a downright shame. Why is the greatest country in the world tolerating this?