The plan is terrible. It will harm Senior citizens who will in many respects simply change places with the currently uninsured. Insurance (Medicare) that is not affordable (co-payments and premiums) and/or denies care because you are old and the cost of the care is too high, might as well not exist. In addition, the plan is designed to undercut choice by creating this monster called the public option. Within a very few years, the other plans will be out of business and we will all be under the public plan. Lastly, the numbers profered by the President and the Dems (of which I am a member) are lies. The real number of uninsured Americans who cannot afford to buy a plan is more like 15mil. That looks like a lot, but there are ways to cover them now without totally destroying what the majority of the Nation is happy with. Why does the President insist on this at this time? We must all ask this question.