I think most everyone can agree that the system we have now, being driven by the insurance conglomerates, is an overpriced scam deluxe, and have driven medical costs to way out of proportion, as to services received, verses services paid for. Right off the top, going through an insurance company, adds a minimum of 30% to the overall cost, just in the paperwork, profit, and price setting..just for starters...however, having a government run program would be as efficient as a twelve pound yo-yo. Virtually everything they have run, runs inefficiently, is cost prohibitive, and turns to shit. Thinking otherwise is just wishful thinking, a pipe dream at best. I wholeheartedly agree, that something needs to be done, but I'm not at all sure, or confident that an over-expensive government program, is the answer...just a short term 'solution',..that will have to be fixed, by another bad idea. History shows this plainly...but then again, history teaches us that man never learns from history!..GfS