Health care reform

I really don't know enough about the debates on the US health reform to comment.

The NSH model of healthcare is the only one I knew as a child. If you're acutely sick, you go to the hospital, get treated promptly, and pay nothing. If you're not so sick, you queue up at the local ED, where a department would typically see around 500 patients a day. In the midst of it all, the sick ones still get sorted, the not so sick one, well, you just have to wait for hours but eventually you too would go home with some cough mixtures, if you're really not that sick. Having said all that, we never had to trouble the public hospitals. Mum would take me to the GP, and pay up front. We were lucky, not least to say none of us have any chronic aliments.

So, if the Obama reform means more (95 vs the current 83%) Americans will get health care coverage, it has to be a good thing. Even if it means even heavier healthcare spending in country which already spends to much in health.

It is the system that needs to be tweaked, no the fact that less people should be covered, I would have thought.