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I don’t know what is more interesting, Barack Obama’s smoking habit or Tiger Wood’s adultery? I can’t say I care about either of these cases. What I do care about is the Health Care Reform, and I have spent many an hour in front of the TV watching the President’s crusade for better health to Americans. I have seen the Dow Jones index sky rocket as he speaks of the United States as the innovator of the world, and hit rock bottom when he mentions tax. I guess campaign-financing corporations have some remarks for the president in their future meetings.

Health is important, no matter what the”Tea baggers” might say about Obama being Hitler and that socialism take away your freedom. Look at Russia, how they after the fall of the Soviet Union converted to capitalism, and is now a thriving democracy. Or even worse, look at Norway – the socialist country with universal healthcare that forces young people to nearly kill themselves in a fifty kilometer cross country event in the Olympics.

Now, regardless of what you may think, universal healthcare is the most cost efficient way to provide health care to people. Yes, you pay a little more tax and you get a little less money in your wallet every month, but if your appendix is having a bad time you don’t have to pay for it. Although I in some way can understand your skepticism towards solidarity, my strongest argument against introducing universal healthcare is that you probably have to include celebrity rehabs as well.

Even though you don’t want to pay for Lindsay Lohan’s drug-rehab or David Duchovny and Tiger Wood’s sex-rehab, the point of universal healthcare is that you can go to these rehabs as well. For free. It means that you can screw up big time once or twice, but society will take your bill and silently demand that you pull yourself together and at the same time tell you with a delicate whisper in your ear; “The next round is on you”.