Sarkozy Welcomed American Healthcare reform by Milota Sidorova

So called "controversial" health care reform was passed in the U.S. last week. Critics and defenders, they both called it a victory for American President Barack Obama. The tune, however was different. The most crucial aspect of the reform were establishment of general insurance for all American citizen and increasing payments for richer groups of people. So far, there's been around 32 million uninsured Americans. For us Europeans it seems unbelievable - American health care system was working this pay and cash system - for each step done by the doctor, whether it was merely a prescription or a surgery was paid by check. Now these things are going to change, the insuranc! e will be obligatory, in a way more available but will increase deficit up to $2.5 trillion that seems to be more than a lot for debt ridden United States. Although Republicans hate the reform, many of European politicians agreed the passing and welcomed Americans in the club of "states caring for the poorest". For some of them the discussion that took more than a year and included massive advertising campaigns and media attention, this discussion was kind of "hard to believe". French President Nicolas Sakrozy visited the U.S. on Monday and gave cheering up speech on health-care reform at Columbia University in New York. President Obama who just returned from his night visit of Afghanistan wasn't scheduled to meet President Sarkozy that time. Sakrozy stays in the U.S. and is about to meet Obama during the dinner in White House and to somehow to warm-up French-American direct relationships.

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