Eat Twinkies all day long - You pay more for health care and so on and on...

A modern cynic would say the correct answer is to, “run the old lady over and put her out of her misery because the health care plan in this nation won't pay for her, make love with the perfect partner on the hood of the car, then drive off with the old friend for a few beers.

Learn the truth about education, healthcare, unions, dorders etc.

Kotlikoff says: “The IMF is saying that, to close this fiscal gap [by taxation], would require an immediate and permanent doubling of our personal income taxes, our corporate taxes and all other federal taxes.“America’s fiscal gap is enormous – so massive that closing it appears impossible without immediate and radical reforms to its health care, tax and Social Security systems – as well as military and other discretionary spending cuts.â€He cites earlier calculations by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that concluded that the United States would need to increase tax revenue by 12 percentage points of GDP to bring revenue into line with spending commitments.

Item 6 & 13 were only partially true both pertain to the health care legislation.

I need to review if healthcare legislation applies to real estate investors (aka landlords) that are not business owners.

I am from India --been here 40 years --Do not like politics here or in India --But lately so frustrated that I decided to start writing blogs and comments --May write a Book soon -- "America No 4"Health care --should be repealed --totally --take three or four years to Evaluate Long Term Solution --with 10 doctors, 10 insurance companies, 10 large hospitals and 10 pharmacy manufactureres. -- Eliminate Social security --for any one under 35 --- do not take out any deductions -- Flat Tax --on consumption only No Income Tax and NO Capital gians tax check my first blog--may be too late -[LINK REMOVED]

.$7,000,000,000 is way too much money to spend on health care for the few people that were there.Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort they put in in evacuating the building, but they were doing their job.

Btw, if my answer above wasn't complete enough, I have another answer to Tom's question...It's the same people who say that it's not the government's job to provide public health care to Americans, but has no problem approving budgets that include $300B for Medicare (um, that's free health care) and another $100B for the VA (more free health care!)...

We fortunantely have good paying jobs in healthcare and have a fairly large discretionary income.