I just want to make it clear. I am not in favor of Max Baucuses health plan or President Obamas health plan. What does it say when the Baucus health plan is not liberal enough for Olympia Snowe, a republican. She is a moderate republican, but a republican none the less. Even she won't sign on because there are not enough subsidies for poor people. Maybe it says he (Baucus) has received over three million dollars from the health insurance and pharmaceutical lobby. Why do you think they are backing his bill? The only way to go is a single payer health plan. Medicare for everyone. Right now medicare (the health insurance you get when you reach 65 years old, ran by the government) only has high cost patients enrolled in it and that's why its going broke. On the other hand the health insurance industry has seen record profits year after year with our out of pocket costs skyrocketing. Its no wonder, if medicare picks and chooses to only insure healthy people the way the for profit insurance companies do, they would not be in the financial trouble their in. They would be making a profit themselves. The cost for insurance companies to review claims so they can deny them, along with looking for any little discrepancy so they can drop you when you find out you need them for a catastrophic illness is over 350 billion dollars a year. That money could pay for everyone in this country to have health insurance at no additional cost to the taxpayer. This is not socialized health care. The V.A. is socialized health care. The government employees the doctors and nurses and owns the hospitals. A single payer plan would not. The profit should go to health care workers not the insurance industry. A single payer system is medicare for everyone. You go to whichever doctor you choose. This is the only solution to solve three very important problems. 1. It eliminates the possibility of medicare going broke, because now they are taking in money from healthy young people who on average use very little of the benefits as well as older people, many of which need constant medical care. 2. The overhead that is now spent on administrative costs would pay for the program. Estimates say that it would cost around two hundred dollars a month for a family of four. That money can be given to you by your employer to pay for it. This eliminates the higher costs your employer pays to private for profit health insurance companies. 3. It allows companies a lower cost structure to compete on an even playing field in a global economy. But noooo, congress and the President will have none of that. They just want to feed us a bill that will cost the taxpayers a ton of money, ensure the insurance companies continue with record profits, and keep many people uninsured. Once again the democrats are wimping out. You could give the republicans everything they want and they still won't sign on when it comes to a vote. They know they are feeding the democrats shit and when it fails they can say "See we told you it wasn't going to work" and blame the democrats for a crappy bill that they were against. Democrats in D.C. must wake up and grow a set for a change.