30 Billion dollars last quarter -- I would rather have the government in between me and my doctor than the insurance companies This is a rich man's point of view - what about the 50 million people who cannot afford healthcare and the rest of us who do pay healthcare but have insanely high deductibles and can only go to the doctors our HMO lets us go to? Wake up people -- What are you thankful to Ben Stein for? What has he and the people who think like him EVER done for this country Ben S | 7.25.09 @ 8:34PM Ben, I always respected you and your insight into finance and sometimes political stands, but here you have sunk to the level of a cranky and hateful old man. You words are truley shocking and slanderous to our commander and chief. Thats right Ben are now what you always hated. The leftists who personally attached Bush rather than making their argument that Bush was professional incompetent are not much better than you right now. I no longer have any respect for you. You said goodbye to facts and intelligent argument and loaded your gun and fired hate speech and pretty much called our President a terrorist lover and a hater of America. Why do idiots like you always think who is patriotic and who is not. George Washington would have considered your opinions treasonable offenses. Just answer this Ben, who the heck got our great country into this financial