Once again Steve Chapman has used the mainstream media to provide his research.
Republican ideas and plans for health care reform have been around and consistently free-market for years -- just read any campaign platform from the past 20 years. And for all those years the Democrats demonized Republican/free market solutions, even as their Socialized schemes crashed and burned throughout the rest of the world. To blame (again) Bush for health care reform failure is just stupid.
Obamacare is anathema to anyone with experience with Canadian or British health care,anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of math and logic,and anyone who believes that free market solutions are ALWAYS better than letting the government take over....

Kirk claimed on his web site that he read the entire 1,200+ pages of the Crap-and-Tax bill, then voted for it anyway.
No honest (or intelligent) Republican or conservative would have voted for this bill, which effectively nationalizes the energy sector and hurts the Americans who can least afford huge hikes in energy-related prices.
Kirk is typitcal of the politicians in Illinois: indistinguishable in their ideology, cynically craven about doing whatever it takes, and interested only in self.
Won't vote for him.