In the wake of the aborted launch of the U.S. health care overhaul, both the Congress and the usual array of Washington pundits have entangled themselves in a clash of idioms, scouring the trees while missing the forest.  News reports focus on party squabbles, phases of legislation, and items to include or omit while underplaying the visible damage wrought by Obamacare and totally ignoring the long-term consequences of health care by government fiat. Government-run universal health care is the rule for almost all developed nations, with the U.S. the glaring exception until the shaky advent of Obamacare.  So how is the developed world performing for delivering health care to the public?   Answers remain fuzzy.  Most national health care systems contain large swaths of both satisfied and unsatisfied citizens, and any effort to compare the variety of universal health care systems across the globe has become a meaningless exercise.  Depending on whom you...(Read Full Article)