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Bill Maher has a very good New Rule posted over at Salon. He echoes a point I've heard plenty of times before: it's not that we don't love our country, because we do. It's that we see so many things about it that can be improved, and the ideas are out there and have many years of testing behind them. If healthcare in our country is so good for everybody, why are so many people uninsured, underinsured, or fighting with their insurance companies to actually cover the care they're supposed to be getting? In a country where we're supposed to enjoy shopping for the best price and encouraged to shop til we drop, why does our 'free-trade'-loving government stop us from shopping for the best price on medicine? and why do they stop us from actually buying the medicine at the best price?

I do want to make plain: I dislike things I see government doing wrong or doing badly. This does not mean that I am disillusioned to believe this means all parts of the government are bad by extension.