What the Brits thought about the health summit--a sleeping pill.

Our Britsh friends found the summit—sleeping inducing. But then they have health insurance and we don’t.

Here are a few quotes:

Warning: watching American politicians argue about healthcare can be seriously damaging to your health. Symptoms may include migraines, extreme fatigue and sudden violent urges. In the event of exposure to competing statistics — regarding "donut holes", "HMO deductibles", "reconciliation devices" or suchlike — seek immediate medical help.

The public affairs television channel C-Span 3 might as well have put such a message at the bottom of its screen yesterday as it broadcast President Obama’s epic six-hour "bipartisan" debate on US medical reform.

And:

It was mainly an opportunity to see how many conciliatory-looking poses Obama could strike while listening to his Republican opponents explain why the entire first year of his administration has been a gigantic waste of time.

And:

The President’s first challenger of the morning was the Republican charmer Lamar Alexander, a whiskey-voiced Senator from Tennessee. “We want you to succeed, because if you succeed, our country succeeds,” he told Obama, before adding, a few moments later, that want he really wanted, more than anything, was for the President to fail.

And:

For the Democrats, it was a long overdue moment of victory. Whether anyone in America was still awake to witness it, however, was another matter.

Read the full article at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7041663.ece