done to improve their lives. Medicare is going to run dry in 7-9 years and where will the average senior be then. Insurance companies need to be put out of business , they have reaped all they need to. Obama wanted to go with the single payer plan and in my estimation is the only plan that will really work , but the republicans wouldn't hear of it in fear there pockets would not be lined with insurance dollars. I'm not going to leave out some ofthe Dems. as well. Wake up America , can't you understand that republicans have never been for the working man and never will. Obama is our only hope of the working poor to have a better standard of living. Instead the people that do work for a living are fighting Obama tooth and nail. How stupid! Allison's comment pretty much summed up everything I wanted to say and I guess there's not anything you can do about ignorant people that are simply being brain-washed by people like Ben and his cronies. I don't know what you have been smoking, but I hope you paid a lot for it since it has you totally delusional. When will you and your idiot friends get the clue that more government is never the right answer? 'Democracy' is just another form of tyranny. Benjamin Franklin summarized it simply: "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." James Madison, often called the father