Healthcare Reform talk...

I've actually been trying to avoid discussing this, but since it seems to be the number one political topic on peoples minds(especially the President's) I thought I could put my two cents in. Let me preface my opinion by saying that this issue has divided almost everyone I've talked to. Friends and family on both sides of the isle, and for that matter liberal and conservative. Blah Blah Blah...enough of the political jargon. I believe overall the one thing that America can learn from this whole issue -be you for or against the purposed plan-is that extreme political action causes extreme political reactions. The pendulum swings. The reason the American people including the democratic majority are considering such an extreme social action is that they obviously don't agree with the direction the country has been moving in for the last decade. I think we learned this from the election.
From the RNC.org website I found this :
"I BELIEVE the proper role of government is to provide for the people only those critical functions that cannot be performed by individuals or private organizations, and that the best government is that which governs least." -this is from the Republican Platform.
I agree with this and a lot of the patriotic statements made on the site, but I understand that in the country we've created today, money plays a vital role on what can and can't be done. Thus the 'private organizations' by this case it refers to the insurance companies and even health care providers are failing too many. This I believe is due to the growing class divide in America.
With that point made, I think we've all heard the nightmare that is the Canadian Health care system, with the threat of long waiting, bad salaries, bad quality, and VERY LITTLE RESEARCH. The fact that the President has been centering his schedule around this issue makes me think that he needs to slow things down a bit. Even if he feels passionate about it. I guess time will tell, and we can only hope that the issues with having socialized healthcare will work themselves out or rather that we create a failproof system that is well thought out, and tested. I look forward to reading your comments.