I'm actually here in Germany and was born here and speak the language and I can vouch that the German health care system has not caused any of the problems that the Tea Bastards said would happen in America. The only reason there's any trouble with their social welfare system here stems the unification of West Germany with the former East Germany because the latter was so economically fucked up from the days of the Cold War, not to mention also that Germany has been bailing out all the other EU countries who's economies are fucked up because most of Europe is on one single currency the euro.
A daughter of a friend of mine is attending medical school in Germany.
It's costing her practically nothing to attend.
The Germans apparently understand that SUPPLY and DEMAND play a big part in keeping HC cost down.
We Americans think the solution is to just keep throwning money at the DEMAND side.
And we wonder why the cost of HC continues to climb so much faster than inflation?
Obama's solution was no solution, folks.
Yes it will give many people who do not have HC coverage that coverage.
But in the national aggregate his solution only reinforces the root cause of the problem
...demand exceeds supply.