Having worked for 39 years in the health care industry with providers and health insurers I have never found an inherent superiority of private industry compared with government in running health programs. I am supremely more comfortable with Dr. Berwick than with such private industry leaders as the prior CEO of United Health who basically pillaged the market for his personal gain or the former CEO of Columbia Health who presided over a company that garnered wealth by inappropriately billing the government. Frankly, many of the comments I have read here attacking Dr. Berwick are strident and appear to be baseless.