My concern with moving toward any sort of universal healthcare is that we focus entirely on insurance and not at all on pricing and creating an actual, functioning market for healthcare services.
Different regions set different priorities: Eastern and southern Africa countries choose to focus on early childhood care and education, and central and west African countries focus on improving the unfinished business of Universal Primary Education.
Universal also distributed two of the Best Picture Nominees: A Serious Man, through its Focus Features division, and Inglourious Basterds in a partnership with The Weinstein Company.
And he calls for greater focus on increasing the skills of unemployed people, setting the right balance between universal and means-tested help for pensioners, and the use of DNA technology to cut crime.
Gun-control advocates have helped highlight these flaws, but some also worry that focus on the system's holes will be used as an excuse to block legislation requiring universal use of the background check system.