It's a funny one
I have met at least one perfectly intelligent American who was opposed to it; for the sake of avoiding a heated debate I didn't ask her to explain herself. But then I have also met several other perfectly intelligent Americans who, like us, can't understand why so many of their nation are so bitterly opposed to the idea.

At least it's through - as Enzyme points out, it will probably be a fairly second-rate compromise, but then I suppose the NHS took a long time coming and even then was only after fifty-odd years of piecemeal social reforms.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 10:49, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

It's not even comparable to the NHS though
it's a centrist bill regarding private companies and insurance, the state isn't actually providing any health care, the intention was to force insurance companies to compete more and not just cherry pick the healthy people, but I don't know if this bill will actually work in that way.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:10, Reply)

It's really not centrist at all.
"The Centre" in America is comparable to the right here. By US standards, Cameron is a socialist, since he supports the NHS.

The difference between right and left in the whole US political spectrum maps roughly onto the difference between John Redwood or Daniel Hannan and Ken Clarke within the Tory party. It's really no difference at all.

(Indeed, there's a joke along the lines that the US has two political parties: one is like the Conservatives, and the other is like the Conservatives. Except that the joke is out of date, because both are to the right of mainstream Toryism.)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:17, Reply)

This!

(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:35, Reply)