So You Want Govt Run Healthcare? (Robert Guenther's Story)

Not really HN, but I held off flagging it because healthcare is an expensive business issue for self-employed people and startups. Anyhow: how is an anecdote about a localized system failure in the public sector any better or worse than one about localized system failure in the private sector?

These stories are compelling because it's awful to be sick and not get the treatment you need, but at the same time it's like trying to extrapolate software architecture from a collection of bug reports.

self-posting this because I think it's a story that should be heard.