The poor state of the American healthcare system has become abundantly clear to me in theory, but John writes about his experience in practice, trying to find health insurance for his family after leaving his job. His first entry describes the problem and commenters offer some suggestions, his second elaborates a bit more and asks commenters for more information about other countries’ health care systems. Hearing how the system works in Canada, Australia, France, Germany, and the UK is interesting and enlightening. There are clearly problems with many implementations of socialized medicine, but I would contend there are far greater problems with the US system. Many people have stated that we have a looming healthcare crisis, and yet no one in government seems to be willing to start having the inevitable difficult conversations.