this useless, unexceptional nation of ours . . . that has only been a scourge on the world since its infancy. Enjoy your freedoms, my man, this new legislation strips away many of the mundane, everyday liberties that you currently take for granted. Keep grabbing for that brass ring of FREE entitlements . . . until you wring your hands again when we are all under the thumb of your current heroes in political office ! You make me laugh !! Dealpitcher | 11.10.09 @ 7:55PM Bob | 11.12.09 @ 4:43PM While Frank Marschino made some good points he doesn't show a clear understanding of what is necessary to deal with his points. For example: many families do suffer because their insurance is dropped. It would be simple to just require that insurance companies cannot drop the insurance if they have taken the money from those people for a year or two. Another issue is the complaint that people are leaving the country to get cheaper treatment in oither companies. That's called competition which he seems to think is a good idea. In fact, competition could easily be extended by opening up the state insurance companies to competition. With 1,300 insurance companies in the country tthe only way competition can be prevented is by the states restricting the competition. Creating competition is a good idea but doesn't need the federal govt. as one of the competitors. We know that the fedearl govt. will increase the cost of medical care as