How fascinating RICHARD that you know what the medical care system would be like under a single payer system as opposed to the system we currently have.

I again bring up the statistic that our system is 37th in the world in care, #1 in cost.

I just finished the medical benefit renewal for a client of mine. They are a small, strugglng manufacturing company in LA County.

Thanks to an outstanding broker we were able to bring it in at a 6% increase. Family coverage is $1,434 a month.

It is not a top plan -- middle of the pack I'd say. We did that by carving out some things -- employees will have to pay more. And both the company and the employees will pay 6% more than they are paying now.

I find it interesting that so many other countries can figure out a way to go to a single payer system and provide better care than we do. I have more faith in the people of the United States than to say we cannot do what others have done.

(And those who are going to respond with anecdotal experience of bad service in other countries -- I am sure there are service issue. But here too. How many people have died in waiting rooms this year?)