It's because being able to freely exchange information is one of the most important tenets of freedom. It goes completely against the desire of most governments, which is to gain power and subdue the populace.

Some people may think it's about "copyright infringement", it's not. It's about controlling the public. It always has been.

The same technology used to fight "copyright infringement" can be used to further much more sinister plans.

Be vigilant. Even if you don't pirate a single byte you need to fight this.

It's becoming clear that Americans can't afford care better than the "middle case" that the rest of Western world has, and tweaking malpractice liability and medical forms will only reduce costs trivially. Large private companies are just as bad if not worse than governments when it comes to bureaucratic incompetence, and it doesn't make sense to put health care into their hands since it is primarily an entitlement or charitable service to which profit calculations don't apply. The government already pays for most health care in the US, which you claim is the best, so saying it is "the problem" is ridiculous.

You're probably thinking of linear congruential generators (LCGs), proposed by Lehmer. Old unix rand()s were LCGs but with bad parameter choices.

LCGs can be made OK but the state of the art has moved on. Try a generalized shift register implementation like Mersenne Twister.

Those are all pseudorandom. As another poster pointed out, true random numbers are obtainable for example by observing radioactive decay or in single-photon/slit experiments. (All analogue processes have some degree of true randomness but some more than other, the more chaotic the better; a lava lamp is probably good but sloooow :)