The good old days of America are long gone, we're in a new age with different rules. We live in a hugely divided country that falls just short of internal strife- if Americans were any more divided, the battle wouldn't be rhetoric, it would be bullets and blood. It's sad, and without a unifying agent, we're doomed as a country.

Doing for your country could include contributing funds from your paycheck to allow those less fortunate citizens of said country access to affordable healthcare. A country is not the land, a country is the people. Without the people, there is no country.

samson wrote: [TO: Gigantes56]
Gigan.

"The plans are oriented toward the elderly"

See medicare.

Do yo really think getting the Gov involved will control costs

Theoretically, the money from your taxes that goes for gov salaries, police, army, atc, etc, gives you something in return. Look at college tuition. It increases in direct response to the amount of gov money available thru grants and insured student loans.

And most people don't call taxes contributing. When my money is taken under threat of imprisonment, I'm not making a contribution.