Only 35% and you get complete 100% health care with zero deductible for your entire family? And you can also put your entire family through four years of college for that, too? And you're guaranteed at least two weeks of paid vacation? Wow.

Pardon my cynical nature, but I doubt it.

But if you are, great. You're obviously in a much more socialist environment than most Americans. And why would you want to pay a little extra for other Americans? I guess you'd have to ask that young mother who just lost the father of her kids to a drunk driver. Or ask that elderly couple that just got flooded out of their home in Lewis County or Grays Harbor County. Or maybe that guy with a family that just lost his job of 15 years because it was shipped offshore and his child was recently diagnosed with cancer. Ask them why they didn't have their [censored] together.

Or you can continue to be an "it's all about me" kinda guy. You can have your country as a collection of individuals, or you can have America as a country of individuals cooperatively creating a civilized society.



Bolagna. A better idea would be to put a salary cap on the CEOs of those insurance companies and pharmaceuticals. But consider if you had a single-payer system there wouldn't be insurance costs to rise because of lawsuits. I've had socialized health care for 26 years and pay less annually to insure my entire family than many people pay monthy.

Per capita there are more self-employed (read small business owners) in France than here in the United States, which economists say is a result of the high cost of health insurance here.