But they come and go and get replaced by newbies with novel approaches. Nonetheless. we are far closer to a free enterprise system than the Europeans... and as a result we are far more innovative. My concern is that turning over our health care system to the government, which would run it like they do the postal system would be the first step down the slippery slope to an economy run by the leviathan state. I can live with Obamacare as a compromise.