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As was pointed out last night, with McCains plan you WILL BE taxed when you go to use those health care benefits. THAT is revolutionary and unheard of in history. Never before has a healthcare plan taxed the users when it is utilized. He gives it to you with one hand, and takes it back with the other. Obama wants to start with the insuring of kids because they ARE the future and are relatively cheap to insure. If they get good healthcare when they are young it will reduce the expenses as they get older because any potential problems will have been addressed early, like asthma. It is preventative medicine, the best kind. Mandatory insurance puts everyone into a big pool and allows preventative medicine because there will be enough money to make it happen. Otherwise, people will not join until they are very sick, and expensive to treat. You can still choose your own doctors and plans, if you are happy with them. I respect John McCains service to our country but somebody who votes with Bush 90% of the time can hardly be described as a maverick. Sounds like more of the same to me.