that higher taxes sap our economy and kill growth? My 65-year-old wife is quadriplegic and ventilator-dependent from multiple sclerosis. My IBM retiree medical benefits have covered expensive hospitalizations and round-the-clock nursing at home. I suspect that a government health program would assess her life expectancy in "quality-adjusted-life-years" and refuse to pay for such care. The apparent goals and the details involved in the legislation make it clear that cost savings, if any, will be achieved by moving most of us off our employer-sponsored programs. Scary for us. Christina | 7.27.09 @ 10:03PM At the risk of sounding unintelligent, " DUH!" These were all concerns that I had during the primaries, but the people accepted him anyway. You have to wonder why. Was Hillary Clinton a much bigger threat than he? I didn't vote for him, nor did I vote for McCain, a Dem in Rep clothing. My conscience is clear, and I say this as I'm being systematically stripped of the freedoms that I enjoyed since my birth. I'm sorry to say that the general American public is gullible, and in addition, sadly uninformed. They have no understanding of the issues being debated, no understanding of the economics behind these issues. That's what a public education does for you :) Will | 7.27.09 @ 10:23PM The unfounded and hardly factual musings of a segment of America's population that is caught up in a whirling dervish of paranoid rantings and delusional conspiracy theories. You people are sad. The American republic deserves