As I said, I grew up in the UK where health care is free and presciptions are a flat (very small!) fee. Irregardless of what medication you need, the price of the prescription is the equivalent. The worth of birth control pills the same as cancer drugs, AIDS drugs or drugs for diabetes or heart disease. No matter whats wrong with your health, it wont cost you an arm and a leg to fix it, and youll never go bankrupt from health care expenses in the UK. In the US, on the other hand, thousands of workers a year go bankrupt from outrageous costs of medical care and some loses cars, houses, and everything else they own too. Just to pay off the voracious treatment rooms, insurance companies and drug companies that are currently controlling Americas health care system.

also, Americans are terrified of a national health care system given that, being a pretty gullible nationality, they believe the horror stories the bogey man is spinning (the bogey man being namely, any Republican that can get up and voice an instruct). Republicans are talking about taxes being raised under Obamas new health care plan (they wont be!), theyre talking about people not being able to see their own doctor (this wont happen) and theyre talking about a system that will control Americans to such an extent they wont get the health care they need (and this isnt likely to happen either).

As a Brit first and an American second, I was brought up in a country where we question the management. A lot of Americans believe the party they support so, if theyre Republican, damned straight theyre going to believe the Republican party whos telling them Obamas health care plan wont work. Me? I question not only the Republican Party but their ethics, as many Republican senators and representatives are in the pockets of the insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies so, of course theyre going to tell you Obamas national health care system will be bad for you. Because if Americans support Obamas national health care bill then these same chubbiness cat Republicans will lose the money that gets put in their pockets by the medical lobby.

I now live in Thailand, a country that just recently moved up from third world to second world status and even we have a national health care system. Every person in Thailand is covered, so that any visit to a doctor or any analysis costs 30 baht (just less than $1). If you solicit a higher level of treatment than at a common Thai government hospital, you can supplement it with health insurance or at a personal hospital. Private hospital treatment in Thailand however is still less than a tenth of the price of ordinary hospital treatment in the US yet Thais pay far less a portion of their salaries in taxes than Americans do. So, if Thailand can provide such an pleasing medical care system to its citizens without growing taxes, it stands to reason so can America. Its also now why so many Americans come to Thailand every year for their health care involves – its cheap, the treatment is even better than in the US, and Bangkok private hospitals are now rated as some of the best in the world.

Lastly, Americans bust a gut when they think they might have to pay higher taxes for Obamas health care plan, but dont seem to care that a billion dollars of their taxes are going to Iraq – every day. Thats because former-President and current-scam-artist George Bush did such a sum on the heads of Americans, truly having them believe that America would be overrun with terrorists if America didnt go into Iraq and deal with it.

Fast sends eight life and America is now paying the price for Bushs little scam. Americas think they cant find the money for Obamas national health care system because theyre paying out the nose for Bushs Iraq scam. If it was me, I familiar with which one I would prefer. A national health care system that would cover everyone and make my health care needs easier to get and to afford. Not a false war in Iraq that has devastated Americas image around the world and meant that you, your kids and your grandkids will still be paying for this war years following America has left Iraq in shambles.

America needs Obamas national health care plan, but until Americans wake up and realize how theyre being scammed by the Republicans, the health care companies, the insurance companies, the drug companies and George Bushs foray into Iraq, they probably wont get it.

Me? Im glad I live in Thailand.