6) Funny about Reagan. He was thought of as an inclusive centrist Republican. He would NOT have been welcome in the current Republican party. I honestly believe that.

I commend the Danforth family (foundation) for all they have done, but to say they are conservative is to say Dick Gephardt was conservative.

The repubs are not trying to go far right they are trying to go where Reagan operated.

Without real numbers, your hypothesis on percentages is meaningless. I look at insurance like Ma Bell many years ago. It's a virtual state-by-state monopoly and the insurance industry has the systems so rigged that the average person is s-c-r-e-w-e-d and this situation is getting worse. Pay more and more, getting less and less coverage and getting dropped at the 1st sign of a health problem.

I think employer to employeee based insurance is dying - virtually dead. It's helping bankrupt small business and will eventually have to goto indivudual insurance.

I want the same thing the congress critters have. OPTIONS. All of it on a menu on my computer. I'll pick what I want and can afford like my home insurance and car insurance.

Again. IF the republican were doing anything bt playing POLITICAL GAMES, they would have long ago offered a comprehensive healthcare plan. But they haven't. They just want to undercut this POTUS and da*n the American people or trying to offer a better solution.

I just cannot believe so many can't see thru the forest of "death panels" and "socialism" and the gamesmanship of the politics of fear and DEMAND better solutions.

Instead, the "alternative" position from the Republicans is to offer nothing. It speaks for itself.