DougR - Rasmussen Reports, "Forty-nine percent (49%)of voters nationwide now rate the U.S. health care system as good or excellent. That marks a steady increase from 44% at the beginning of October, 35% in May and 29% a year-and-a-half ago.

Well, Doug, that's sad! It indicates two things.

1. 49% of the American public is simply so blissfully ignorant of better health systems in many countries outside of the USA that they don't know what they're missing and probably never will. ;-) and....

2. They believe what their media and their insurance companies are telling them, which is mostly lies, scaremongering, and half-truths intended to deceive them.

I DO live somewhere where there is a far better health system than the USA has, so I am not taken in by your media, and your health insurance companies' propaganda and scaremongering.

Be that as it may, I do not think for a moment that Mr Obama's so-called health care plan is going to help much, because he caved in to your health insurance industry and is helping them, not the general public.