The republicans are the ones who seem to be so afraid of socialized medicine yet we have socialized police, fire etc. Everyone in this country is entitled to have your house saved from fire well what about your LIFE!!! We are all entitled to be able to go to the doctor or have life saving surgery without losing our homes or all our savings we worked for. Instead we are making everything look warm and fuzzy by insuring ALL CHILDREN. Well that's great unless you are an adult past forty who must go for several preventative screenings per year. Healthy children go to the doc once a year for physicals. Charlie Crystle is absolutely right. We need to force employers to insure all employees not just full time ones. We need self employed workers to be treated just like big corporations with the same level of insurance coverage. It's a broken record but no one is listening so I must play it again and again. Whetehr you have good insurance or not you are one illness or one lost job away from losing everything because America is more interested in insurance company profits and donations to campaigns than they are in peoples lives.