I read One Good Move virtually every day. The guy that maintains the site touts critical thinking, which makes it interesting even though I don't agree with everything he says. For example, I don't think he practices such when he considers the controversy about the notion of global warming.

Anyway, he linked to a good article here that discusses health care around the world. The author of this article puts it succinctly.

Shareholder profit, inflated CEO salaries, and top-heavy administration -- all of which serve to work against the delivery of care, not facilitate it -- are anti-efficiencies that siphon off 20-25% of America's total health care spending. These are huge sums; yet it's mostly money down a gold-plated rathole. In the end, it doesn't provide a single bed, pay a single nurse or doctor, or treat a single patient.

This, in my opinion, is not only what is wrong with health care in our country, but what is wrong with the economy in general. It isn't that I begrudge administrators their living, but it is just a little bit overkill. The goal of these people is to live above society. To those with plenty of resources, there truly are no boundaries in the world. For the most part, wealth knocks them away, and this is what these people desperately want. The health care industry is just one avenue toward this goal.

This is the way I put it in a comment to the post...

The way I see it, this is what is wrong with capitalism in practice. A few with unlimited resources, whether consciously or not, work to oppress the system as it is supposed to work, effectively inhibiting a free market.