Public versus Private
"According to the World Health Organization, in the United States administrative expenses eat up about 15 percent of the money paid in premiums to private health insurance companies, but only 4 percent of the budgets of public insurance programs, which consist mainly of Medicare and Medicaid." <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/opinion/22krugman.html">source</a>
Private insurance is less efficient than public insurance. Competition in insurance has _no_ benefit and is actually detrimental to the health of a nation.
Here is the part about private companies that gets my goat: insurers make more money by working to deny people healthcare.
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