European-style socialized medicine

Polly Toynbee has an article in The Guardian today on the problems faced by the German healthcare system. She's writing about it in light of the Tories' proposed reforms to the NHS, but it's interesting to read from an American perspective - the Obama healthcare reform is creating a system that's not too far removed from the way Germany does it now, and it's likely that a lot of the problems they're having now we'll be having in the future.