Universal health Insurance is the "new and more appealing theme" being used to describe government controlled health care. It hides the unpopular names of Socialized Medicine and/or another called The Single Payer Insurance System when the only possible single payer is the Federal Government.

Be aware, the citizens of the State of Oregon. in November 2002, voted 3 to 1--against a single payer system for their State. Last year the single payer system of Tennessee filed for Bankruptcy after 10 years of trying to make it work. When asked why, the answer I heard was that too many people on the list didn't belong there.

In Canada, despite Single Payer Health, some patients are being referred to private clinics to get their care. In England private medical practice is being supported by the National Health Service where a million of their citizens are on waiting lines for the care they need.

Despite these realities, one our candidates would completely remove private health care. Others promise Universal Insurance for all including those now uninsured. One Candidate promises to pay for it all by eliminating President Bush's tax cut [of approximately 50 billion dollar] to help pay the 220 billion dollar cost for one year of his proposed Universal Care. Be aware, the projected cost of Medicare,has increased ten times over projections made in the '60's, It would be wise to figure that projections of the cost of Universal Care will do the same, not to mention the long waiting lines these systems create.

One candidate sees health care coverage, for all Americans, as their right. Doesn't a right require an obligations which, in this case, should be that each of us take proper care of ourselves or the contract is null and void. In that case, life might not be be much fun.