I think you really need to take a close look at some other things our Congress has got involved with and tried to fix. Let's see, hummmmm, housing comes to mind. Lets make it more affordable. (health care and housing) Lets force banks (for health care think insurance) to make loans to people who really can't afford them. (force insurance on people who can't afford it) Lets create sub prime lending to support this. Oops, it failed, now lets spend billions to bail them out. (insurance companies)

Lets see, Medicare is going broke and oh yes, the wonderful part D to line the drug company pockets.

And social security, that will be broke in 10 years.

If they really feel they need to spend money, fix programs they have already put in place, not create new programs with new problems. So far the track record of government run programs is abysmal. Why would we want them to take over more. Stay away until you can prove your capable of success.

I can see it now. The government physical year is about to end. They have 28 billion they have to spend or lose it. OK everyone, line up for your Proctologist exam. Looks like the tax payer will be sc***wed either way.