I for one am weary of hearing all the nonsense from those who defend the USA's private system of health coverage. There is so much about it the system that is failed and is indisputably so when the facts are examined. Surely, the empirical record has established this truth: the private health care system is not up to the task of covering nearly all Americans and in fact benefits from eliminating many people from its rolls.

Even as we get this dire report about 5 million Americans losing their health coverage, we also got reports today about health insurance companies making record profits. Only social Darwinists can tolerate such twin realities.