Well, first of all, a Dem cannot be lected if he or she even suggests that spending gets paid for... That is Reality 001 (remdedial, no credit hours)... So here is the deal... If health care becomes "somewhat" nationalized (haha) meaning that folks can buy into a national plan then, yeh, in buying into that national plan one could consider it a tax...

Forget the fact, for one minute, that if you are paying out $1000 a month for health insurance and along comes something like Medicare that you can but for $700 that you are savign $300 a month... The Repubs don't want you to think like that... They only want you to think that you are being taxed... Slight of the hand here...

This is the real debate... Do Americans want to pay less for health insurance??? Even if it means that they will paying the federal governemnt???

Like Horrors!!! Not the federal governemnt!!! (Mobs running thru the street in horror as the monster approaches the city...) Well, ask most any senior how they like Medicare and most say it's great... So what the heck is wrong with a system that doesn't consume 17% of our GNP and puts US on equal footing with our international competetors???

(Well, it's a tax, Bobert!!!)

Bullsh*t... It is a product!!! And it's cheaper than the health insurance that is out there now!!!

Thems is the real story...

The Repubs are running out of gas with their insistant framing of everything evolving around taxes... Hey, they love to spend but hate to pay... At least Obama is willing to have US pay... That's a novel idea after 30 years of Repub (Clinton included) rule...

B~