UNITED STATES: Health care reforms unleash passionate debate*

The health care debate is consuming America. The airwaves are flooded by advertisements for and against, from all sorts of interest groups.Let’s look at the main features of this debate. As the health care bill is debated in the US Senate, it will go through the process of being examined by various committees, and then the 2,000-page document will have to be voted on by the whole Senate. The Democrats have 60 votes in the Senate, which means that the Republicans, who so far are uniformly opposed…

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