Ahem...you are against Propaganda and you recommend Drudge Report? That is like fighting alcoholism by recommending vodka. Have you ever took a short moment to think about which kind of attributes propaganda has?
Also, your knowledge about why people invented health insurance seems to have large gaps. Your priests might be from Harvard and Yale, but joining a political party always requires you to give away a part of your brain. The democrats have to give away their sense of realism, the republicans are only permitted to keep the cerebellum. After all, as back room party grand master, you sure don't want to permit that anybody joins your party who is openly smarter than you... (Just look at Sarah Palin, she was really willed to give all for the republican party, and she sure did)
You don't pay for giving ill people a luxury treatment, but you pay for preventing poor ill people from making YOU ill, too. Nothing more, nothing less. The cholera epidemic of Hamburg was for example one of the reasons why Germany has a long history of public health insurance since imperial times. I doubt you can imagine how many donations you would have to give away every year for replacing a health insurance by NGO carriers. NGOs like "medics without frontiers" have much higher standards, as the public health insurances in most countries I know - heck, even a vet has higher standards.
Also, to defend Greenspan, his job was never to make managers think, but to limit the damage caused by the activities of these managers. The US Federal bank is nowhere as powerful as the European Central Bank or its predecessor in doctrine, the Bundesbank of Germany. The US federal bank gets commanded around by presidents. Greenspans cheap money politics kept the US economy alive longer, which is already a major achievement when looking at the structural problems.
How flawed the financial world is, can easily be seen by the statements of a US bank manager, who complained about the planned more rigid standards for banks, which requires them to have more real assets as counterweight for the transactions they do... somehow he has not understood that a thrust-worthy bank HAS money.