Health care is at the present extremely expensive in this country. And there are a lot of parts of the world where health care has not even penetrated the surface. And there are even a few countries like Great Britain where health care is government sponsored and hence free.

But the future of health care in America is not so bleak after all. The new bill passed in the cabinet makes it a lot easier for a comprehensive health care bill to be passed in the future. The current bill makes sure that insurance companies do not take advantage of the health situation of a person. No insurance company can suddenly increase the premium or stop providing services in the event of a serious medical condition. The bill also makes it clear that both men and women must be charged the same premium as long as their general health condition is identical. This makes it clear that women will not be discriminated upon just because of their sex. The words put forth by the speaker were that being a woman is not a disease in itself and hence should not be discriminated upon.

But we still have a very long way to go before we reach the standards of the British health care system. The greatest impediment to this would be the large population of America. The American population is almost one thirds that of India and it keeps increasing by the day. And this is mostly due to immigration. To bring such a large immigrant population under the health care umbrella is extremely difficult given the financial condition of these people.

The geographical scale of the country is also a problem. To provide effective healthcare, we must be able to access each and every person across the extent of our land. To do this there must be a huge physical network of government sponsored hospitals and clinics which do not exist at present.

And the global recession is making it all the more difficult to realize the great American dream of health care for all. With the global meltdown, the fiscal deficit keeps increasing by the day and there is not much we can do about it. The government continues to offshore most of the non important work to countries like India and the Philippines, but it is just not enough to stop the meltdown. But with more off shoring, in due course of time Americans will be able to focus on things that are of more importance and significance and leave the monotonous work to the lesser developed countries. And we can hope that one day the dream of free health care for all will be realized.

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