Healthcare reform at critical point.

(From The Slovak Spectator)

Editorial A LOOMING affordability crisis in the American health care system has turned healthcare reform into a vital agenda for the upcoming US presidential elections. Recent surveys show that more than 50 percent of Americans think that presidential and congressional candidates' views on healthcare reform will influence their vote in November. Most Americans support policies that provide coverage to uninsured adults, and believe that the cost of health care should remain a shared responsibility between individuals, employers and government. According to the Commonwealth Fund, a private US foundation for independent research, these views are shared across the political spectrum. Across the Atlantic, Slovaks are gripped in a similar crisis. Polls show that …