The Great Healthcare Debate

Healthcare in the U.S. is without a doubt a mess. I've been reading every single post on my friends list relating to it with great interest from both sides of the fence and have been thinking a great deal on the matter. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to the numerous problems besetting us and I do not think the proposals underway are going to answer many, if any of them in a successful manner. I wish I had links to my sources, but I began mulling this over months ago and it didn't occur to me to save them. And I'm afraid I just don't have it in me to read thousands of pages of legalese and try to make sense of it, so I'm relying on summaries written by others (including one from Obama's webpage, I might add).

( Don't get crushed by the wall of text! )