make and how much they have left at the end of the month. If you mortgage more than you can afford, well then, that is your fault. Our health care system is, by far, lacking in some areas, but it certainly is not to blame for the downfall of our economy. Stein has it right! Obama needs to stay out of the insurance business. That is, unless he will suddenly opt to leave the White House and become a full-time insurance salesman!!! Tulsa Jack | 12.3.09 @ 3:05PM Democrats have worked for 45-years to destroy the private health insurance industry in this country. Now they have the nerve to claim to fix it with a typically oppressive, unworkable, unaffordable socialist monstrosity purposely designed to deny health care to anyone who isn't healthy. And they have the absolute gall to exempt themselves from it! A return to free enterprise capitalism with a minimum of common-sense regulations would solve the problem in short order. Here are four obvious ways to start: 1. Tort Reform. Stiff the trial lawyers. They steal 2% of America's entire gross national product, and spend it to elect their Democrat stooges at the people's expense. 2. Regulatory reform. Get wasteful federal and state government bureaucracies out of the private health insurance business. 3. Expand the insurance market nationwide. Repeal laws that restrict insurers to protected markets. Force them to compete for business! 4. Increase the supply of medical doctors. I could write legislation implementing these simple, basic, non-oppressive