Yesterday, Michael Moore brought his Sicko road show to Sacramento to promote government-monopoly health care in cahoots with the California Nurses Association and state senator Sheila Kuehl.  Mr. Moore has really ramped up the rhetoric around the evils of for-profit health care (despite the fact that 85 percent of private hospitals in the U.S. are non-profit, and almost half of health insurance policies in the U.S. are from non-profit insurers).

Today, we learn that the Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor hospital in LA will likely close because a patient died after waiting in the ER 45 minutes.  Indeed, the hospital has received more than a dozen state and federal safety citations in the last 3 1/2 years. Problems include giving patients the wrong prescriptions and using Taser stun guns on psychiatric patients.

The owner of this apparently horrific facility? The County of Los Angeles!

A bad day, indeed, to espouse the benefits of a government take-over of all hospitals in California, Mr Moore.