>I am beginning to hear, on the American news casts, that the Democrats are about to give up on working with the Republicans and just put a Democrat plan for health care into place by themselves.
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>Yes, I have heard that too, but I have a feeling that it will not happen. The overwhelming public sentiment against government run health insurance cannot be going unnoticed by the democratic congressmen that get their employee review at the 2010 elections. If they anger their constituents, they will be voted out of office. So I guess it boils down to how much they want to keep their jobs.

Hi Marcia. From today's news, health care changes in US may happen on a more gradual basis.

Grand changes bring pain along with the desired effects, just as they can in programming. System evolution is better.

One of the things that need to be addressed is the size of malpractice awards which cause expensive defensive medicine among other problems. There must be many other "small" issues that cause big (expensive) effects of which I am not aware.

Are you going to SW Fox?

Alex