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I see that Congress passed Obama's health plan. Will it make it through the senate and how will the actual package change things in the US?
Same thing with the Australian Medicare system, although our last government did succeed in eroding it, and making it much more inefficient, while increasing subsidies to private health insurance companies.Personally, and I've said this on other threads pertaining to this issue, we in the UK struggle to understand how your health care system can work as it currently stands. It seems brutally uncivilised for one of the worlds major and most developed economies, and the claims of the anti reform lobby in regard to the UK health system arn't based in fact.
If they ever took the NHS away from us there would be riots nationally.
I don't approve of them leaving out abortions as being covered, but I have a hope that one of the changes in the upcoming review will be that it will be included.
Also, correction, it passed the House of Representatives. It is in Congress's hand now, and if they pass it, the president will sign it. The checks and balances can be confusing, I had to be corrected earlier as well today.
If they ever took the NHS away from us there would be riots nationally.
I said Congress because I thought you referred to that chamber as Congress. i.e. Congressman Brown. Whereas Senator Smith sits in the senate. I know it's the House of Representatives but what do you call them then? Representatives?
Unfortunately, the Executive Branch (White House) has little control over what the House and Senate make and pass. We'll just have to see if the Senate removes the crap from the House Bill and institutes more of what Obama was hoping for.
My sadness in this, is that no matter what passes through the Senate, Obama will be forced to sign it lest this be, as Republican Senator DeMint's posed, Obama's Waterloo. Problem is, signing something that is crap will still serve as Obama's Waterloo. I am so disgusted that the Republicans are more interested in their party's war against Obama than they are in what's beneficial to the American people as a whole. Of course, I lost faith in things here in the U.S. when they voted in Bush Jr. for a second term.