Free-enterprise doctrinaires and dogmatics love to extol competition. What if a crew of capable, public-spirited professionals, with the support and resources of the US government, were to go about nationalizing any pieces of our balky private health system that are collapsing, and gave a good example by offering better care for less money? That would be worth trying, say I from my temporary perch in a country where the single-payer system, seconded by mutual insurance coops, does quite well. And take a look at this snapshot from Haiti seven months after the earthquake.