<i>While in the short term health care reform will help people who can't afford expensive care, it will slow innovation (propelled by the profit motive) and will encourage people to engage in expensive (in terms of healthcare costs) lifestyle choices.</i><p>Im not sure, though, that is the reasoning driving this populist opposition.<p>This healthcare reform business has seemed a bit of a mess for me, living in the UK. To us the new proposals seemed like common sense and "I thought everyone did it that way". The mass opposition was unexpected (at least for me anyway).