it does for everytnig else. We also know that the cost of the federal govt. program will cost far more than we are being told. The govt. virtually always seriously undeestimates the cost of all of their programs. Look at Medicare and Medicaid for example. Both of those medical programs have cost far more than originally estimated, have placed restrictions on types of medicine that can be practiced, shown themselves inept in their ability to stop fraud, led an increasing number of doctors to shun those patients and put bureaucrats between the patient and the doctor. Barb | 11.23.09 @ 6:14PM You need to get your facts straight. You sound like you are just parroting what you hear Obama and his cohorts spout. Get it straight, like Ben does, you are part of the problem in this country, not a help. Stan | 11.25.09 @ 12:07PM A nice reply, Jerry, and I applaud you for it. At least you have an argument to make while mostly arguments in favor are not so clear. But it is not enough. The answer to a societal problem is not another problem. Also, if the fat cats run the show, then are they not then, ipso facto, running the movement toward health care reform? And if this is the case, then would they be proposing a real solution to their system they run in the first place? You make the assumption, incorrectly, that Obama is an antidote to the fat cats, if fat catism