Although there is clearly still a battle ahead, some sort of national health care plan is inevitable. Any kind of national plan is better than no national plan, but I very much dread what the first stages are going to be like. It is likely it will be a public-private "partnership." If there was some balance between Corporate and Government, that would not be a bad thing. But there isn't. In the arena of essential public services designed to meet the needs of the private citizenry, all attempts at a partnership so far have been a real boondoggle. Net result? Most people needing those services suffer.   

I am resigned that we will have to 'reinvent the wheel'.