Your financial information is fine, but you assume that Medicare and private medical insurance produce relatively equivalent medical outcomes, and I can tell you for fact that they do not. Medicare recipients receive sub-standard care because Medicare reimbursement rates are lower than, in most cases, the cost of care. If Medicare paid more, the quality of care might improve, but then the financials would be worse for everybody. The whole Medicare system needs to disappear in favor of private insurance, over time. Promises were made to today's elderly that have to be kept, somehow. Still, I would favor an option to allow seniors to take their Medicare benefit as a check and buy private insurance.

The Constitution declares "one man one vote" to be the law of the land. Why do you get THREE votes? If your first vote doesn't count, you get another, and yet another. If my first vote doesn't count because I voted my favorite, then it gets discarded and counted in with your second. The most popular person in the race can lose with this system, and would have won easily in a pure-plurality one-man-one-vote system. Remember the old adage that "it isn't who votes that matters, it's who COUNTS the votes." We don't need any more shenanigans after the balloting than we already have.

All Obama knows how to do is campaign. He's not involved in and does not care about the actual policy. He's too busy creating crack-pipe dreams in his head about how he will be worshiped when his Utopia arrives, by the magic of his own words.

Actually casting a ballot does not qualify one for high office. It doesn't even really qualify you to vote, as witness the results of the last election. Heck, even RUNNING for office doesn't qualify you for that office, as witness the results of the last election. I say, take the best choice and hope they're not as bad as the clown currently occupying the seat.

You are perfectly free to engage in any of those healthful or money-saving ventures that you wish. Why not leave the rest of us free as well? That is the fundamental issue. Liberals and Democrats mean well, and promise us the moon. They promise we can have all the health care we want, of higher quality, and it will cost us less than we are spending now. Then they propose to create some one-size-fits-all boondoggle that cannot possibly work in the real world, and never has.

We are told that General Motors went bankrupt because they couldn't afford retiree health care costs. How can that be, when every retiree gets Medicare? Shouldn't Medicare be picking up the tab for everything, and covered by the premiums being paid in...