Take a look at how American physicians (and even some European physicians) have reacted to government controls. Take a look at how the FDA has stonewalled progress in the area of certain drugs.

Physicians aren't industry. The real money is made in healthcare by pharmaceutical/device/equipment suppliers. OK, some people say that these companies enjoy/drive compliance difficulties that create a barrier to entry to all but the annointed ones. That may be true but it is also true that industry needs to be closely supervised in this area as well as in banking. If you want to see unfettered market at work, check out who started the FDA and why.

I'm not minimizing the credible scenarios Rand portrays- they are credible- I'm trying to understand how/why people are saying current events are predicted and even involve "irrefutable evidence" rather than fiction.

I'll grant you that the auto execs needed to step down - they demonstrated poor leadership.

These guys are supposed to be industry heroes. Boy did they screw up: compare to their competitors in Europe (start with Volkswagen) and Toyota, both whom have or are planning factories in the US. They've lost a lot of $ recently but still that's not what Rand predicted. And government isn't driving the local remnants into the ground, it's stepping in to preserve/rebuild remnants of a once valuable asset. Rand didn't predict that either. No doubt some will say that government was involved in the train-wreck to make it fit "Atlas Shrugged" better but on that basis you can claim that "Little Red Riding Hood" also predicts current events if you recast everything to make it fit.