If we're in a competition for oldest age credentials here, then I'm at a severe disadvantage. I'm only 61! Barely out of diapers at this point.... ;-D

Doug, the plans that are being seriously looked at in your Congress are not the plans you need, because they have been drawn up by the private health insurance companies...and they are the very people who are already ripping you off and denying your populace the equal and fair universal health system you need.

I get total medical coverage for everything except dental care in Canada, Doug, and it costs me less than $1,000/year in income taxes. So does every other Canadian get that same level of service, and it's generally very good service too. The public here massively supports our universal single-payer health coverage, because we have direct experience of it. You don't. Your population is largely ignorant of what they have been denied, they are living on mythology, and your media and political parties (both of them) are trying very hard to keep them that way so that the health insurance industry can continue to grow fat off American society like a giant vulture gorging on roadkill.

The fact that you apparently believe the propaganda you hear is disturbing, but it just goes to show that if lies are repeated often enough by any mass media, then most people will believe them.