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In the US, there seems to have been a constant argument between right- and left-wingers over "government-run" health insurance.  The right tends to disparage all aspects of "government-run" health care, and in the case of insurance, uses the alleged faults of the two big US government health insurance programs as examples.  (Medicare is a federal government health insurance program for the elderly and disabled.

Medicaid is federal-state program for the poor.) 

The American Medical Association (AMA) has become worse than useless:

AMA urges issuance of EMR penalties be delayed

Last week, reports about deceptive marketing and other questionable practices used by the growing for-profit higher education industry in the US appeared in the news.  For example, per Bloomberg:

Recruiters at U.S. for-profit colleges lied to entice students and encouraged them to commit fraud to qualify for aid, a report by the Government Accountability Office found.

Last week, the Sacramento Business Journal reported on irregularities in how health insurance/ managed care giant Aetna obtained a contract with the US military health plan Tricare:

Aetna Inc. hired a former high-level Tricare employee with access to proprietary information about Health Net Inc.’s performance that could have given Aetna a competitive edge in its bid for a lucrative military health care contract, the U.S.

Government Accountability Office has concluded.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recently released a report on the oversight and regulation of dietary supplements, suggesting that the FDA take further steps to improve oversight of the supplements.

David Seckman, Executive Director and CEO of the Natural Products Association, the nation