"cream of the crap", eh? Ya hit that one right on the nose ;)

ANY health insurance improvement would be welcomed.

AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T JUST MEAN THAT A BUNCH MORE "SUITS" GET RICH!

Or should I say RICHER?

Utah Republicans in the state legislature have to be hoping that Barack Obama wins and solves this problem in a way that they can complain about for a few months. They have no ideas for solving it themselves-- let alone the political will to follow through on a solution.

Find a way to encourage people to buy insurance on their own instead of getting it from their employers. This is the main problem with the health care system. People need to be consumers instead of just receivers of a "benefit."

They've missed the boat on this one! The problem isn't "insurance"; its cost of the medical care. Insurance simply reflects the costs with a fixed profit margin that is appropriate, especially compared to other industries. The solution is to lower the costs! When the conversation heads that direction, then a solution is on the horizon.

The market may just correct this for us. As additional people lose insurance, and the market becomes a fee for service model with people paying out of pocket, you will see starving doctors and hospitals IMMEDIATLEY lower prices and compete for business; patients will get appropriate care and preventative care, and frivolous care will decrease. As tax revenue slips, further cuts to Medicaid and eventually Medicare will work its way through to lower costs. The only candidate with a vision of whats needed for this to occur is Wayne Crawford from Sandy. As a Houuse candidate, he can help Utah rise above this "crisis" and Utah can become a model for the Nation.

What our for profit health care system in America needs is still more deregulation. Let the magic hand of the market make the needed corrections. Casting off pesky government regulations worked so well with our banking and investment system that all these great free market enterprises have collapsed under their own greed, begged for a trillion taxpayer dollars to bail themselves out and have been partially nationalized.

Yes, let the free marketeers of the Utah Legislature help the greediest by deregulating the health care biz some more. The result will be the same: the complete nationalization of health care within the next five years.