LOLI do not get too much into politics and the big picture too much.Dennis I understand your position.My mom a few years ago had a full knee replacement.The surgeon that operated on her is one of the best in my half of the United States.Medicare covered part of it and then her secondary insurance picked up the rest.She was one of the last patients with Medicare that this Doctor took.The reason he no longer was taking Medicare is not only were they going to start squeezing them on pay outs but the bigger issue was control of the patient care.For instance my mom has one of the best knees with no issues and full range.It's the same the professional athletes get for sports etc.The surgeon was telling us Medicare was fixing to dictate to them what brand and quality of knees they would have to surgically install in their patients.All because they want to buy cheap crap to make a buck and buy in bulk.The surgeon said he is not putting in junk knees from Medicare and then the patient sues him for revisions,infections,messed up internal parts that fail prematurely when the problem isn't the surgeon but being forced to use an inferior product.More policy thinking they know what is best but creating more problems than solving them.

Ever since visiting the BP site my computer has become infected with the BP virus!

Dont let that cancer infect the other tenant.

We have all been sick, and have had several doctor appointments over the past year relating to coughing/headaches/sinus infections/etc.

LOL  Ping pong... a couple of the guys in my office have a bit of a rivalry going on:when I had my real estate brokerages the agents were more interested in sneaking porn.. my system was forever infected LOL 

I've been interested in REI for many years and have been infected by analysis paralysis.

This year it's projected to be right around $1T (I'll bet the WH will throw a parade) Since we are talking about what it will take while ignoring the political fallout, the first step would be to get rid of the crony capitalism that is rampant in our health care system and has also infected much of the rest of the government whenever there are private contracts involved. 

Sixty million were infected.

Then "progressiveness" hit and the police do nothing about the bums, there are piles of trash literally 10+ feet high, rats running all over the place, human crap and used needles on the streets, homeless camps across the street from million dollar condos, and diseases infecting people.

Downtown and in many neighborhoods you have to dodge tent cities, aggressive bums demanding money and watch out for the poop and infected needles littering the streets.