mj, no matter what plan they come up with you can bet it will be over one trillion a year. And that's just the bug they put in your ear to begin with. You can take ANY government program from history and you'll find the projected costs WAY below reality. On a trillion dollar program you can safely tack on 25 to 50% for it in the near future. Do the math. 300 million people in the U.S. 1.2 trillion dollars. That's 4000 a year for every one of them. I'm 55 yrs old. I pay 6 grand a yr. Even if I saved 2 grand a year I hardly think a government program would satisfy my needs, let alone my wants. Plus, today if I get mad at my provider I can quit them. Under government health I'm forced to pay. Once your power to spend your dollars is taken from you what's left? JKP