Wikileaks released a 'secret' cable about Cuba banning  Michael Moore's film "Sicko", which compares the U.S. health care system with those of the UK, France and Cuba.  On his website , Moore claims that opposite what the secret cable claims, "Sicko" was shown on Cuban national television, screen in theaters and embraced by Cuban health officials.  On the US gov's mode of operation, Moore acutely observes:

" It is a stunning look at the Orwellian nature of how bureaucrats for the State spin their lies and try to recreate reality (I assume to placate their bosses and tell them what they want to hear). "

Do I really have to point out that the same Orwellian bureaucrats in the State Department are the same Orwellian bureaucrats that would be running state-administered universal health care?  Would there be no incentive to lie and recreate reality to placate Health Department bosses? 

I tend to like Michael Moore in that he does a good job of detailing the problem (US health care system is broken), but his solutions don't make much sense to me (get the US government to run health care - as if they don't already have medicare, medicaid, VA, etc.).  It was the same with the movie "Capitalism: A Love Story"; Moore identifies that the US financial system is completely FUBAR.  But he can't understand that the US financial system is the furthest thing from true capitalism; it is a marriage of corporate and government interests (that's called fascism) and that more government intrusion will further distort and distend the market.

People like Moore are caught up in the notion that if we can just get the right people to run the gulag, it will really be a great place to live.  We don't need new 'leaders', we need a new form of interacting with each other, absent government force and coercion.  The system is broken, Mike.  Time to attack the source of the problem, not just the symptoms.