Possibly the biggest need for shared sacrifice in health care would be sacrifice by trial lawyers and their greedy clients who seek outrageously huge damages in malpractice suits.  In a world where people born with a disability succeed in suing a doctor for failing to abort him, some lawyers are definitely out of control.  And I'm sure you've noticed advertising seeking clients for lawsuits against big drug companies, makers of asbestos products, etc.

There are obviously legitimate reasons to file malpractice suits, but more needs to be done to insure that verdicts make sense in the real world and that awards are reasonable.  One part of the solution would be to make plaintiffs in frivolous lawsuits pay dearly for abusing the system. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Pete Peterson was also the former CEO of Lehman Brothers back in the late 70's to the early 80's, up until the time it was sold to American Express, I remember because I used to work there.  If I remember correctly his wife was one of the people instrumental in getting Sesame Street off the ground, (and we know how Sesame Street feels about Barky don't we?).

Edit: His wife is the creator of Sesame Street per his biography.

In Ken Auletta's book "Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman", Peterson was described as someone who would toss orders or the like over his shoulder expecting them to be picked up.

With a wife who appears to be a liberal and the elitist attitude Peterson exudes, it is no wonder the SCM eats all this up. 

The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER

It is easy to deride people like Petersen, who made his billion off the backs of hard working Americans who can only dream of a fraction of what he has due to the facist policies of his chums in office today, and Sawyer, who has always lived in the lap of luxury and echo chambers.

These two will not share or even "feel" the effects of sharing in their lives due to their financial and political positions.  They are shielded from the fallout of their views.

Petersen is a damned coward for avoiding the Stinkulus Bill's projected effects on the financial security of this country.  As a Gordon Gecko of his time, Petersen should know where Obama is leading America to for years to come.  Sawyer is, as usual, a buffoon as an interviewer, so no surprise there.  Unless Sawyer was referring to "old American values" as early 20th Century "Progressives", or Socialists, or 1960's Hippie communalism (just an updated version of old fashioned Communism), then I, and she, have no idea what she means.

Petersen proves the fact that even smart people can be really, really stupid.  Then again, he might be angling to make more money and/or governmental access.  Greed is good, huh Pete?

America has BETTER outcomes overall than anywhere else on the planet.  Examples of why our medical system is better than elsewhere can be read here and here.

I really dislike these manipulators and their enablers.  Without the decade's long steady propaganda drumbeat of doom and gloom by the Liberal press and power-hungry Liberal politicians, the American public would have a much higher opinion of healthcare. 

Like a battered spouse believing they are the problem, the American public has been bludgeoned into submission over healthcare and the inverse opinion of what government should do according to "old American values."

Someone remind me when massive taxation schemes in an already debtor's hell economy combined with ever increasing handouts were "old American values."