Here's a freakin' novel idea.....

"We decided, let's try something else. Let's go to the public and give them a
chance, not in terms of writing a bill, but let them provide a kind of general
roadmap where the country ought to head," Wyden (Senator, D-Oregon) said.

And here's the cnn.com article it's from: Americans want universal health coverage, group says .

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, said he and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, came up
with the idea for establishing a group that would work outside of Washington to
find out what Americans want. He said they were tired of years of gridlock on
health care issues.

DEAR GOD! The country truely is going to hell in a handbasket if elected politicans actually think asking the "Sheep" what we want is a good idea. You just can't have politicans running around all willy-nilly actually interested in REPRESENTING the plebs. Damn, what do they think this place is, some kind of psuedo-democracy?!?!?!

"Assuring health care is a shared social responsibility," says the interim
report of the Citizens' Health Care Working Group, a 14-member committee that
went to 50 communities and heard from 23,000 people.

RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!

That should raise the ghost of McCarthy quicker than any seance could. It's positively communist.... SOCIALIST even.

The group's stated values and principals were as important as the recommendations, Grob said. Those principals said all Americans should have a set of health coverage benefits guaranteed by law. Those benefits should be "portable and independent of health status, working status, age (and) income," the report said

It just amazes me...not the part about Americans wanting Universal Healthcare, that's just common sense and basic humanity. What amazes me is that a committee had to be created by congress and funded to the amount of $5.5 million to carry out a fundimental principle of a representative democracy.