Just saying….

I am really having a difficult time understanding why some Americans are so rabidly, hysterically opposed to health care reform in the US. I mean, have you seen those people at the town hall meetings? And it’s not because of the weak suggestion of a public option (that’s what I’d be up in arms about – there *has* to be a public option!)…. it’s because of…. well you know, Obama wants to kill children and old people. Or something to that effect.

In response the US government vehemently denies that they would consider bringing in a system like Canada or Britain have – socialized medicine being the bugaboo that it is south of the border. Heaven forbid! A seamless system under which a single insurer manages payments to any number of services that might be required by a patient without any fuss to said patient? I’m not saying the system here is perfect by a long shot, but I do appreciate that I can go to the Doctor, the lab, an ultrasound clinic and a specialist never once having to figure out if that company or individual is covered by my insurance plan. They all are! And there isn’t another plan to get it confused with! (Not only that but I pay less than half of what the average HMO charges for medical insurance for what is considered some of the best medical care in the world).

Yeah, that’s totally something to scream about, or to backpedal away from. I can see why people are bringing handguns to townhall meetings to confront their local representatives…. Because public health care is too scary, all those good God-fearing Americans need to defend themselves from it and Obama. Damn.