Where Michael Moore is Wrong

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/07/where_michael_moore_is_wrong.html

America's medical system has problems, but profit is the least of it. Government mandates, overregulation and a tax code that pushes employer-paid health insurance prevent the free market from performing its efficient miracles. Six out of seven health-care dollars are spent by third parties. That kills the market. Patients rarely shop around, and doctors rarely compete on price or service.

Private competitors innovate or die. Government workers do what they did last year. That's why I want the private sector to provide my health care. Pursuit of profit will give us our best medicines and medical devices.

I'll pay you $1,000 if you can name one thing government does more efficiently than the private sector.

Third in a series on articles by John Stossel on his interaction with Michael Moore. In it he disputes more claims of how government does a better job of providing services than the private sector. Moore's popular belief that certain services shouldn't be "tainted" by profit is deceptive - and attractive to those who don't understand what profit truly is.