The World's Lisa Mullins talked with a French and a German journalist covering the U.S. healthcare reform debate from Washington to hear what they make of the vitriolic debate in town halls and in the media as legislators and the Obama administration try to communicate with Americans about what reform means.

UK prime minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah have joined a Twitter campaign to defend Britain's National Health Service, which has been under fire in the US. Read more

From Britain's Guardian newspaper: 'Evil and Orwellian' - America's right turns its fire on NHS

From the Washington Post: Health-Reform Rhetoric Gets Personal for Britons

The transcript isn't up yet, but the segment is available as a MP3 file.

Anyhow.  I went to the appropriate Twitter discussion (are those called twits?) and there's a vigorous defense of the National Health System...punctuated by the same kind of trolls we bear around here from time to time.

The BEEB has the story.  More than  a million followers, and thousands of entries.  Since I started this brief post 631 more tweets have been added.  More will be added while I proofread this.  But I'm not going  to try to keep up.  I'll  leave you to do that.   Get this out to as many people as you can.