If the politicians will not accept the Health Care Bill for there Health Care, Why should we?

This will be probably be close to the ten-thousanth time I've had to explain this to my american cousins, but health care reform does not involve meddling with doctors nor hospitals nor the technology they use and how they use it, in any way. They'll still compete, you'll still have all the same options to choose your own doctor, yadda yadda... The *only* thing that needs to be streamlined is the *insuranace*. Currently, the health *insurance* system in the US is set up so that the insurance companies are motivated to provide as little coverage for as high premiums as they can get away with.

That's all. You just need is to fix the way the *insurance* system works... and all it means, once you finally get around to it, is you'll be the last industrialized nation in the world to finally get it together enough to do so. Yes, the magnates who control the US insurance industry *are* very powerful, and they'll do anything to hang onto that juicy oyster of health-insurance where they get such huge profits from that insurance, instead of all the insurance money being paid to the doctors, hospitals and nurses who actually do the work.

Go to Germany or France or Japan or Holland or any of those others and ask the people if they wish they had a system like in the states. Do you think for a second that Germans or French or Japanese or British are clamoring at their government's to drop universal access to health *insurance*? All large societies have to sort out questions of what belongs in the private sector, and what should be public.

Some things work better when they are in private hands, and others work better when they are in the public domain, and health *insurance* is one of those that works better in the public domain. Americans know that interstate highways belong in the public domain, and they know that fire departments belong in the public domain (which didn't always used to be the case... there was a time when if you had a fire, then competing fire-engines would pull up and you'd negotiate with them a price for them to put the fire out while the barn was burning down... eventually people figured out *that* one worked better in public hands)... And now, eventually, they'll figure out what every other first-world industrialized nation has already learned, which is that health *insurance* works better in public hands. Or... keep things the way they are, and be like China, where health care is a user-pay service.

Of course, China's always looking for ways to cap her population growth, so why *should* she make health *insurance* universal?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.