...Bill Pass? I hear that I just have to drop my kid's insurance for 6 months then my fellow taxpayers will pay the bill.

Obviously you have not read the bill or know anything about it other than what some lying hate mongering conservative talking head told you. Had you read it you would know that if you drop your insurance your children would be uninsured. Unless you are within the lowest income brackets of working adults and then you might quality. Of course if you were there you would understand and not be asking this question.

I will do everything in my power to stop it. We are already taxed out of our minds-- Federal income tax, State income tax, State sales tax, County local option sales tax, property tax. Any more tax for freeloading losers like you are not in my agenda. I will write every Congressmen to stop this madness of the mad woman, Hillary Clinton.

depends on your income.

but don't fool yourself. we all pay for the lack of universal health care. you pay more because the poor don't have any insurance.

Oh God, I hope it doesnt happen

Why stop there? If you keep breeding kids you cannot already afford, remember, Hillary will provide 5,000 dollar baby bonds for babies being born!

Mr. X is correct.

Once among the most frightening and effective epithets in American political culture, “socialized medicine” seems to have lost its juju. These days, that phrase sounds awfully dated, like a song on a gramophone or a mother-in-law joke or a John Birch Society rant against fluoridated water.

Yet despite their antique quality, the old buzzwords still appear regularly in columns, press releases and speeches. Rudolph Giuliani, Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republican presidential pack run around squawking about socialism whenever anyone proposes to reform the broken health care system.

Syndicated columnist Robert Novak warns that the federally financed, state-run Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is essentially a socialist conspiracy. So does President Bush, who has threatened to veto a modest increase in that program’s funding because he doesn’t want to “federalize health care.”

Although the red threat can still trigger an autonomic reaction among the party’s true believers, the rest of the country simply no longer twitches to that high-pitched, far-right whistle. Most polls not only show enormous majorities favoring the extension of health coverage to every child regardless of ability to pay, but substantial support for a radical change in how we pay and administer health insurance—including the possibility of a single-payer system overseen by government.

Why doesn’t the traditional propaganda work any more? Perhaps the demise of the Soviet Union and the withering of Communism in Communist China have had a delayed effect on public attitudes in this country. Both the Russians and the Chinese have turned more capitalist than the West, abandoning their former systems without substituting modern democratic protections, leading to predictably bad consequences. As unbridled capitalists, the ex-Communists are more of a threat to the health of their own societies than to us.

Most Americans may also have noticed that corporate bureaucracy and corruption, which both figure largely in the present health care system, are not preferable to government bureaucracy. The same doctors who used to wail about the dangers of Medicare have learned how unpleasant it is to deal with dozens of insurance companies, each of which is creating different rules to cut costs and deny care as often as possible. So have their patients.

....and we, the tax payers, will keep financing the lives of those who just don't want to work.......cute!

I want for my kids to not owe 9 trillion dollars to China. When is Bush going to get us out of debt?