The future shape of global healthcare provision is a major issue that we all need to grapple with. Its importance is highlighted by the depth of divisions when health care reform becomes the centre of political focus.

As in my last blog "An Open Letter To Republicans" where I told them that they better get used to Mitt Romney -- here is my advice to you Democrats... Hold your nose and swallow hard Obama is your man!

Dear Republicans, since you are all so terribly unhappy with your present cast of presidential candidates, here's what you are going to have to do - hold your collective noses and swallow hard.

My passport says "United States of America", but it means very little to me now. How can I claim a country as my own if I cannot afford to live there?