Although they weren't able

to kill it, the Repubs were able to totally screw up the Dems effort to offer medical care to the people of the US, the LAST major country in the world NOT to have health care for it's citizens. The final bill, which bears little resemblance to the 'single payer system' operating like Medicare, was messed up SO bad by the Pubs, BUT, the Repubs did get Obama's name attached to it. Thanks to the mess that the Dems agreed to, just to get SOMETHING started, costs continue to rise and no one's happy. The obvious solution? Change the system, so that illness and injury doesn't bankrupt some, while making others outrageously wealthy. The $90 band-aid, $80 aspirin and $50,000/hour operating room works REAL WELL for a few insurance and health care companies, while bankrupting the country and individuals. C'mon, gov't, wake up and DO something about the OBVIOUS problem. What am I thinking? The clowns in Congress are concerned with ONE thing, which is their own re-election, cuz they hold the purse strings to unlimited $$$$.