So after many, many decades the US healthcare system may finally be joining the rest of the world with a form of nationalised healthcare. However, despite grasping the bull by the horns, they’ve still to wrestle it to the ground. Whether or not the US will actually get a form of universal healthcare that the world recognises will only be told with time.
It still won’t be until 2014 that the US system will even begin to resemble other countries access to care, but then the US is already well over a half-century behind the western world so there’s probably little sense in them rushing to join us all.
I don’t have many thoughts on this, beyond “about damn time” as this really doesn’t affect my life in any way. At least it’s another thing I can check of my mental list of American ass-backwardism thanks to the democrats, however I’m quite sure the Republicans will be fighting tooth and nail for the next decade to get themselves added back on to the moron list.