for one have not. It has covered everything except my deductible in 3 relatively minor surgeries I have had. While I dislike paying the $296.00 monthly premium I sure am satisified when I have to use it.

One word - CONTRACT sums up by concerns about taxpayer provided, government run health care.

As our experience with SSI, Medicare, and recent events have shown, when it comes to the government or government run programs there is no such thing as a contract. Whenever, the government wants to change the rules of the game, it changes them. With the stroke of the pen, the retirement age is upped. Another signature and Medicare benefits are changed. Just as easily as the "lock-box" SSI funds disappeared into the general fund (1968 by LBJ to help fund the Vietnam War), any health care plan can and will be changed. Medicare and Medicaid are billions in debt. When we pile the health care bills for millions of new people into the pot, how long will it be before people who actually pay taxes can no longer support the system?

The ONLY solution will be to lower cash outflow by changing the health care benefits offered; changing eligibility requirements, reducing what doctors and medical professionals make. (When has the government ever reduced costs on any program it runs?).

Many say that health care is already rationed - yes it is but now millions upon millions of users can to some extent control the rationing - they can pay for more or pay for less healthcare. Under the government plan, this will not be possible.

Indeed current events have shown us that when it comes to contracts even ones in which the government is not a party, nothing is beyond government meddling. Contractual rights and security interests are no deterrent to government intervention. Witness the resent devastation of Chrysler and GM's secured creditors (demonized by the President for attempting to protect the investment of the bondholders).

All government programs are subject to whim (not to mention miscalculation). The constantly changing bar in the cash for clunkers program is an example of the government’s inability to estimate costs and how lose it plays with the rules of the game.

Thus, what concerns me most about the health care legislation recently passed out of house committees is that it is a work in progress - it changes daily thus no one seems to have read it, no one appears to understand it, and as such, it will be constantly amended and changed to the determent of the ill and the taxpayers.

At least with my current insurance plan, I have a legal contract that unless the government intervenes is enforceable (with difficulty). On top of that, it is not 1,500 pages long. Yes, the insurance company can change my contract but I have to agree to those changes.

With taxpayer provided, government run health care there will be no contract and the plan will be as ethereal as clouds on a windy day.

Finally, even if health care is a Right when without a fight has our government respected our Rights - even those specifically enumerated in our Constitution?

However, the facts don't support your statements. Social security is far from broke; in fact, the fund is at about 15% of GDP or about $2 trillion.
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A Google search on "social security trust fund" will confirm your point about the SS funds being ripped off for other current federal spending.
My folks have Medicare supplemental insurance with United Health Care thru AARP. The contract is plenty long and it seems to work well for them. I've already seen efforts by local providers to change procedures to reduce health care costs and that will help Medicare and all other health plan members. Obama understands as you do that this has to be part of the solution, and has been working with health care providers to achieve this savings.