For the benefit of the dedicated Yank-bashers out there, I'd like to repeat the request made by the originator of this thread:

This thread is dedicated to Americans who want to study the issues attendant to "health care reform" in the United States.

I respectfully request that foreigners continue to provide their thoughts on the relative merits of their own systems to existing threads dedicated to that subject. I suggest that Americans interested in positive change resist responding to input from people who do not understand our system or the substantive issues to be addressed. This is complex subject matter and difficult enough even for us to understand.