Excuse me if I don't readily accept the protestations of a tunnel-vision sufferer that he's seeing just fine, thank you. How would you know?

Exhibit #1: Nothing in the plan makes private medicine illegal. You should check your facts before spouting off. I don't know about Arizona, but in fact in California it's almost impossible to find a private doctor because the HMOs have sequestered such a large number of doctors. HMO doctors aren't private practitioners by any stretch of the phrase. California's plan is like pre-HMO traditional medical insurance, in that you can see any physician you want and the plan pays the doctor you choose. That's quite an improvement over the quasi-socialistic approach of the HMO communal pool of doctors that you get, take it or leave it.

Exhibits 2 through infinity: You didn't respond to any of my points. What about the proposition that business will find universal health care attractive? What about the benefits to small business (the supposed darlings of Republican rhetoric)?

And then there's the general observation that you're reacting as if universal healthcare is some radical wild-eyed notion that's never been tried before. Dude, pay attention: The United States ranks at the bottom of the list of industrialized nations in its ability to provide healtchare for its citizens. What are the other fifty or so nations doing to get better results? Well, you Wingers call it "socialized medicine", but what's in a name? The rose smells pretty sweet right now, especially when compared to the stinking corruption of the system we have.