“In September, the ABC TV program 20/20 ran an hour-long special on healthcare. One of its producers contacted me last spring after finding my congressional testimony on ‘consumer-directed doctoring’ to ask if I would participate by refuting SiCKO, Michael Moore’s movie promoting a government takeover of healthcare. Sharing 20/20 host John Stossel’s passion for individual freedom along with his deep-seated distrust of government power, I agreed to the interview. I applaud Stossel for making a topic as complex as health understandable and even entertaining. If nothing else, he succeeded in demonstrating that a government-run system would be worse than what we have now. With unforgettable stories and images, he showed the delays in care and lack of choice in countries with universal health insurance.” [editor’s note: What this blog has been saying for about two years now, put a bit more elegantly — and then Dr. Berry show how it can be done, with his own clinic - SAT] (01/01/08)