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All good points. Maybe I’m a pessimist about all of this, but I am seeing a slow but steady slide in the direction of universal health care. And a bipartisan slide at that. Who out there is pushing things in the opposite direction?

We have a conservative (one can argue that point) president who pushed a big Medicare drug plan. Dems are pushing SCHIP but Bush would be happy with a watered down version of that. The slide continues...

I think the tipping point happened long ago when government and employers took over the financial responsibility for health and health care from the people.

Once the entitlement genie is out of the bottle, good luck getting her back in...

I think the tipping point happened long ago when government and employers took over the financial responsibility for health and health care from the people.

Absolutely yes.

Once the entitlement genie is out of the bottle, good luck getting her back in...

Too true. I personally think that the only way to stop the socialist slide is to take control of the purse strings. The passage of withholding has done more to hurt this country than anything b/c most people have no idea how much money the government takes, add to that the progressiveness of the income tax...well, we are at the point where 50% of the sheople don't care what things cost b/c they aren't paying for them. Take back the purse strings, make all taxes visible and felt by ALL so the CongressCritters can no longer vote buy or easily use class envy to take more from certain segments of society.
I'm not holding my breath. sigh.