Have you seen Michael Moore's movie, Sicko? I haven't, but I did see his interview with Larry King last week. Though all of his information may not be true, it got me to thinking. What is the real issue of our health care crisis? Why are costs exorbitant? Why do poor people not have access to adequate health care?

When you start prodding around, you discover that people are throwing the blame elsewhere. The physicians say it is the insurance companies. The insurance companies say it is the hospitals. The hospitals say it is the government. On and on the blame carousel goes. No one is willing to step up & say, "O.K., it's me. I am the problem."

And the reality is this simple. The fault lies at the feet of everyone involved, even the patients. (Hey, if you did not get sick we would not have this crisis:-) But even beneath that failure to take responsibility is a deeper issue. The main reason we have a health care crisis in America in the 21st century is simple: Trust. Or the lack thereof. Hospitals don't trust insurance companies who don't trust physicians who don't trust patients who don't trust hospitals. We simply are not willing to trust each other to do the right thing. And rightly so. For the most part, all of us have proven ourselves untrustworthy. And the reason for that is money. But that's for another blog.

Isn't it amazing that it seems that all of the major crises we face as a nation seem to come back to simple things like relationships and trust? It is the heart of humanity.