After spending my working carrier in the Health reinsurance business, I see both sides of this issue. Since when has the Federal Government ever run anything efficiently? Private enterprise, with checks and balances from the government, can always provide any service more efficiently than government. That includes the running of public schools, prisons, utilities, the postal service, etc. For the sake of good health care and tax payers, never let the government do it.

However, there must be provisions made to cover the unmeasurable! I know this personally since my wife had breast cancer 19 years ago. When I retired at age 71, in 1999,I was covered by Medicare, the most God-awful waste of tax payer money in history. But my wife will not be 65 until February 2008. She had breast cancer in 1987 and us undesirable, tho she has had no recurrence, thank God. There are thousands of hard working folks in America in the same situation, but they don’t have the funds to pay the month-to-month bills, much less a catastrophic illness. The solution is fairly easy, but private insurance companies will never do it on their own.

Too, there is the matter of prescription drugs!! I voted for Bush, twice for Governor and twice for president. Yet he doesn’t think I can use my will and brains to purchase drugs where I damn well please. It burns me up!!!

In many ways, I’m not proud of the job Bush has done, but considering the alternative, he was by light-years the best choice.

Thanks for listening!!