Yay!

Exactly. We need to follow France, Germany, and Japan. They have the awesomest health care efar

One less-often considered place is Switzerland. I have gone into whatever the Swiss call Accident and Emergency and was very impressed. I'm unsure how the Swiss finance it; I know I was billed as a foreigner, but I was covered under the European Health Insurance Card (still talked of in Britain as an E111, the name of the form it replaces).

I like how the guy says that "health insurance companies are ruining healthcare" when this bill represents a huge handout to the health insurance companies. Requiring every American to purchase their product? Yeah, that'll show 'em!

Perhaps the Democrats thought that they would be able to make progress on health care by "placating" the insurance industry. Sort of like the "strategy" of "appeasement" toward the Nazis leading up to world war II