What is your definition of basic healthcare? I assure you, the government will provide us not with healthcare but will legislate volumes of rules, regulations, red tape, tax increases and beuraucracy while placing the burden of living within an incredibly complex system on providers and patients that may very well limit access to basic, and probably advanced healthcare in the first place. When I was 24 I had an apartment, worked and went to school...I also had a policy from Blue Cross that cost less than $100 per month. You know what I didn't have? Cable TV, the sacrifice of which covered more than half of my monthly premium. It is about people getting their priorities straight, and the same can be said of the family making $80k. If they can't make ends meet, then adjust something and make your family a priority-if adults bring kids into the world, it is their responsibility to make sure their basic needs are met, and, I dare say, basic healthcare is a fundamental need any parent worth their salt will bust their rump to provide their offspring. I agree that helping more people of modest means attain access to routine healthcare is an admirable goal, but I do not want the feds trying to fix it! I think a much better way of going about this is to let those folks spend $40 for an annual office visit, another $40 on annual lab tests and utilize generic medications if the need arises. This is not a fantasy! It could be accomplished if more people let go of the concept that they need health insurance for routine medical services and simply paid out of pocket for office visits AND purchased insurance to cover hospitalization, which would be a much more affordable policy than one that covers everything from office visits to drugs to ICU care.
Hillary says that the surge is working and that "we have to be prepared to fight the new war." Is she really saying that we will have more wars to fight when she is elected, and that the people who put her in office are the ones who will benefit financially via gov't contracts? 
