Thank you, Peace, for providing those sources for information. However, the first one takes one to The Connecticut Coalition for Universal Health Care. One might wonder about the credibility of the information from such a group ...the objectivity that is.

The Denver Post article: Obama should hire that writer to help him sell his plan. I certainly didn't detect a great deal of objectivity in that article either. It was more a combination of facts and opinions. Example: Quoting from Rhonda Hackett's piece, "Those patients who do come to the US for care and pay out of the pocket are those who perceive their care to be more urgent than it likely is." That's a judgmental, don't you think? Or, this one, "Claims (in Canada) are submitted to a single provincial health care plan for disbursal, while in the US claims are submitted to a "multitude" of insurance providers." I don't know about anybody else, but my claims are only submitted to a single insurance company, not to a multitude of them.

The second website provided, "Health Affairs" offers a study over ten years old and included only three states where Canadians might come to in the states for some kind of health care. True, geographically, they are closest to Canada but some of our best health care offering institutions are in Arizona, Minnesota, California, and Texas. Also, the study points out the difficulty of nailing down the exact number of Canadians that receive health care while they are in the US perhaps for other things. The study also points out that more Canadians seek health care in Canada than come to the US for health care. DUH!

Artbrooks: I am well aware that there is no single Bill being considered. I have concentrated my remarks on the House Bill because I think it is the one that has the best chance of being passed because of the large majority of Democrats in the House.

I never said that any of the Bills required or encouraged anyone to "drop" coverage they currently have (though I do believe the primary effort is intended to establish a single payer plan in the US). My belief is that if a government plan is adopted, my current plan will not exist.

You point out that if the ultimate government plan is "cheaper" and "better" you expect most people to use the government plan. I have no doubt that it will be "cheaper." "Better", however, IMO is a far reach.

DougR