In the US, we appear to finally be making some headway on health care reform. There are people who have legitimate concerns about funding, what it means for their existing insurance, how competition between private industry and government services can work, etc. However, these legitimate debates are being completely overshadowed by people that have been fearmongered by our right-wing media establishments, who are going to public debates on the issue and drowning out legitimate criticism by shouting out things like "Obama scares me!", "Obama wants to kill my grandma", etc., and simply booing.

I was curious if the rest of the world is hearing about this, and, if so, what you think about it, from the health care issues involved, to the "debates" themselves.

If Americans want to comment, I don't really mean to exclude you; I was just specifically interested in hearing outside opinions.