Who Really Knows?

The big Health Care Reform Bill was just passed in the USA. I have not followed the debate as closely as I should have, but now that it is a 'done deal', I thought I would do a bit of research on exactly what this all entails. Why can I not get to first base? One side says that this will ruin America and the other side says that is the greatest thing any president has ever done in the history of the country. There seems to be little if any of the reforms taking place in the immediate future, and just what those reforms are seem to be open to interpretations and debate. It does not appear, at least on the surface, to be a universal health care system like we have in Canada, but more like restrictions and rules being put on health care insurers to assure that all will be treated fairly and equitably by the system. One thing is agreed on and that is that it is expensive. Well, so is our system here in Canada. In our province, 82% of our budget goes to health care. If this same figure will eventually apply to the USA budget, it will be a disaster. The only way to sustain it then will be with massive tax increases and that is one thing the Americans do not take kindly to. Whatever it turns out to be, there will have to be a lot of education on healthy lifestyle or the system as well as the country will go bankrupt. Actually, they are going bankrupt with or without health care. There has probably been a billion dollars worth of blood pressure medication taken just during the debate.