Hey,
As a British politics student with an interest in health care, and with a course this year on US Government, I'm really interested in what's going on right now in the US regarding Obama's health care reform.
Now I don't want this to turn into a big rage topic, I'm just curious to people's opinions and their justifications for those opinions.
That said, however, being British, I am ever so slightly biased. I and the people I know (and as far as I'm aware, the vast majority of the British/European population) are kind of baffled by the seemingly bizarre response the US seems to have had by Obama's plans to introduce free healthcare for 46m US citizens.
I live in a country where nearly 65m people are offered free healthcare, and it appears to me to me fantastic free healthcare. I do owe my life to the NHS, and can't imagine how different/worse my health would be if I had to pay for it.
Anyway, I'm interested to hear what people think about this as I research the ins and outs of what's really going on in America. Most of us on this site either are or were overweight, which is typically thought of as a 'health issue' and I know that some people on here have had issues with insurance things, so I wonder whether people welcome this reform, and the possibility of not having to worry about this anymore?