Obama led health care reform is not inevitable. As usual the political winds will determine how far that boat sails.

However, health care reform itself is inevitable. Japan, the world's second largest economy spends half of what the U.S. does on health care, yet has the longest life expectancy of any large country. Sweeden pays doctors about a quarter of what U.S. doctors make, yet has the world's lowest infant mortality rate, lower than any individual state in the 50 states of the U.S. Other comparisons are not so dramatic, but despite spending about a sixth of its GNP on health, the U.S. health industry produces a poorer result than the large majority of first world countries. There is money to be made in closing the gap, and if Obama does not get it done, someone else will.

What nonsense - only a writer with no math skills could write this column. The insurance company system we have now grows the health sector faster that the economy grows - so at some point the health sector is bigger than the economy if we have no "reform". Long before that, there are massive job losses because our goods and services are priced out of the international market as single payer countries produce both at a much cheaper price. So "reform" is "inevitable" unless we are guided by our media to actions that destroy our nation in order to give the health insurance industry a few more years of "greed is good". Reform without a strong public plan option is not reform as it leaves on that path to destruction - so we will soon see who are the patriots defending us and our economy and jobs - and who are politicians trying for a momentary gain and continued contributions to campaign funds - and we will see which media are simply salespersons for corporate greed.

ATTN -- AG Holder, DHS Sec. Napolitano, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Jay Carney:

APPARENT MALICIOUS INTERFERENCE, OVERT CENSORSHIP
OF INTERNET TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTENSIFIES
IN WAKE OF ‘PANETTA’S BOX’ REVELATIONS
OF SECRET CIA INTEL PROGRAM

• Desperate attempt to cover up a much broader covert ‘multi-agency coordinated action program” of nationwide extra-legal targeting and punishment — using a GPS-enabled citizen volunteer vigilante army recruited from federally-funded volunteer and public safety agencies and “directed energy weapons” torture?

http://NowPublic.com/scrivener RE: “GESTAPO USA”

For more on apparent government surveillance “fusion center” censorship and prior restraint of citizen telecommunications, see “comments” section of this ACLU blog thread:

http://blog.aclu.org/2009/01/26/internet-filters-voluntary-ok-not-government-mandate

Although our medical costs are twice as high as the next country, and our health care quality comes in at 42nd, somehow insurance companies have plenty of money to spend lobbying against the single payer system preferred by the popular majority of Americans. It's morally abhorrent that our own premium payments are diverted from their intended purpose of providing affordable quality health care, and instead used to prevent it.

Keep Obama out of the country. This health solution is so simple..just fix what's broken and leave the rest alone. Too many cooks in the kitchen are bound to screw up the end results. So much to distract us. With 18 million to renovate the recovery.gov website, 2 million more in unemployment, AIG spending millions on golden parachutes, stock market down...Gee, how can Washington sleep at nite. We're all awake and suffering..too bad for Dr. Obama the polls only reflect our thoughts. We're mad as hell.....

I am Dutch, so I observe your country from a distance: the intrinsic value of American medicine is top of the bill, as could be expected from the American drive (yes we can, and yes we wlll, yes we did already). An outsider like me looks at some typical American issues like legislation on guns and your capitalistic health care system with amazement. The incredible power of capitalistic firms with its dangerous influence on all levels reminds me in many ways of the mafia in Italy. Let me adress all of you: come to your common sense. Reform!