Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
The answer is that Americans should be able to buy their own health insurance. . . . . Health insurance is very expensive, but if I needed it, I'd buy it myself.
But 8 out of 10 Americans can't afford to do so. You might be able to, but most other folks cannot, even if they spent every dollar they had to pay for the insurance.

That's the point. Our health care system and its costs are completely out of control. And they're getting more and more that way with every passing year. As much as it sounds great to say get rid of welfare spending, eliminate needless waste of tax dollars, and abolish foreign aid, such changes wouldn't begin to tackle the real problem, which is what Moore is pointing out. Our for-profit health care system, with Big Insurance, Big Pharma, Big Hospital Corporations, and Big Organized Medicine running the show, is absurdly out of financial reach to the people who need it most, even the hard-working ones. All the tax cuts and conservation of federal money in the world isn't going to change a problem that exists within a privatized, big-business system.