McCain's McCarthyite chorusing of the term"socialized medicine" should really be examined in the context of its anachronistic jargon. Socialized medicine? Does he presuppose that the American people of 2008 as a whole are so fearful of anything that could be relegated to socialism that they would cast aside all financial worries and purchase private health insurance? Does he know that many bankruptcies are the direct result of illness or injury that so depletes one's insurance benefits it often leaves one drowning in a sea of debt? What planet is McCain on that he would invoke a 1950s horror movie plot synopsis as an justification to veto that which he cannot comprehend as viable regarding no-cost health care plans in the majority of countries of the free world? "Guaranteed Access Plan"--what an interesting label! Let's see; I am 'guranteed' as a citizen that I will have 'access' to this plan. What ridiculousBig Brother-like terminology! It is as though I told my children they will go to a "guaranteed access" school and have "guaranteed access" to learning, whereupon they will then have "guaranteed access" to graduation so that they will finally achieve "guaranteed access" to meaningful employment--wherein they will have "guaranteed access" to the availability of promotion...and, yes, the utility of this non-sequitar is ad infinitum or ad nauseum, whichever comes first. When the economy is suffering as miserably as it is now, and gas prices rising steadily each day, with food costs--and all goods and services, really--soaring to record levels, under what logical premise does one deduce that the average American family can buy health insurance? Most public employees have seen their deductables quaduple in recents years. For many decades, in fact, it was unheard of in the dental field to charge patients beyond what the health provider charged for routine exams, cleaning and X-rays. Today, a patient can expect to often pay hundreds of dollars for their family members to undergo this very basic, bi-annually-required preventative maintenance treatment. It is amazing to me that healthcare organizations can stick it to the consumer and patient when it comes to drug costs for serious illnesses, while spending billions on advertising for everything medically pedestrian from restless leg syndrome to erectile dysfunction. My relatives and friends in England and Canada love their health care plans. Yet McCain would talk about our ally England as though it's still the Cold War and England, --like Canada Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and other countries who reap the benefits of government-run health care--was actually the Soviet Union. Perhaps a good poll to take would be to ask these countries what their citizens would prefer--a dysfunctional system favoring the rich as America has, or one that actually works like theirs does. Question two: who reminds us more of The Day the Earth Stood Still--John McCain or All Countries with Government-assisted medicine?