I really hope this plan is an improvement - whatever it may be.

Write to your senators and tell Wyden and Merkley that the nation needs health care for everyone NOW.
Our elected represenatives have become the whores of the insurance companies and big pharma, bought and paid for with campaign contributions.
The US system is awful and needs to change for the benefit of "we the people".

Lack of adequate preventive health care results in one death every 12 minutes or the equivalent of the death toll from 9/11 every three weeks. See, Jack's link. Query: Why aren't the pro-lifers joining in the health care reform movement? It seems their only interest is insuring no abortion procedures are covered even by private health insurance. Apparently once the fetus is born, their mantra becomes pro-death?

"The US system is awful"

Slight correction, the US system is EXPENSIVE, but it is not awful. If someone in the world gets sick the first place they'd go to for medical care is the USA.

If someone in the world gets sick the first place they'd go to for medical care is the USA.

That's demonstrably wrong, for so many reasons. And if you're going to cite "Canada" as a favorite patron of US health care, I'd do some more homework on that story line before responding.

And by the way, next time you visit a doctor's office, notice where most of that high-tech medical gadgetry they use comes from.

Here's a hint: Germany, for starters. Most of the most innovative and cutting edge medical technology does not get invented or made in the USA, folks. Ever wonder why?

But still, I'm sure we have the "best" health care system in the world. We must. We must. We must...

"lack of health insurance kills about 45,000 Americans a year". Sounds like we have a new leading cause of death. Move over heart disease and cancer, it's "lack of health insurance" that is now the top killer. If only Johnny's "lack of health insurance" had been detected sooner, we could have done something! Maybe the drug companies could create a new designer drug to treat it, something like Insurrhea? Watch out for the side effects on that one! But I don't really need to worry. My family and I have health insurance, so I know we won't die from "lack of health insurance". If only it didn't cost me over $1000 a month! But not for long. The government will be taking over soon. Free health care, hooray! No more needless deaths from "lack of health insurance".