Concho and DBA the premise that you guys bring to the table is simply not realistic. It is not. Is every person who has aids going to get treated? Is every person who has drug resistant tb going to get treated as well? So in this perfect world of health maintenance provided by our government everyone will be in perfect health?

I guess I am in the minority by not being afraid to go out in public for fear of catching TB from a guy at a stoplight. I better wait until universal health care comes to go outside… whew, thanks for telling me.

By this logic we shouldn’t have police or fire departments. The police can’t stop every crime so why even bother? The fire department can’t save every endangered life so why should I have to pay taxes to support it?

Also, TB and other communicable diseases don’t care if you’re afraid of them or not.

I don’t support this health “plan” coming out of Washington either. It will do nothing to improve the nation’s health and will simply further enrich insurance companies while delivering another body blow to the middle class.

The system I would like the most for the US would be the Swiss system of highly regulated private medical insurance, but we can never have it here because corporations run the government.