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Billy, you finally got me to say something! (Laffing hard here!) I suggest if you don't like paying 50% of your income in tax, spend six months a year in Florida, like some of your fellow Canadians, and leave the other 50% for US to to spend! (grin) . I seriously know what you are saying, because I pay plenty of income tax, plus a LARGE deduction from my paycheck each week for health and dental insurance, and I must pay extra for coverage for my son, who is going to graduate school soon, My wife Barbara also has insurance from work, but we still end up paying for deductibles at most doctor visits. On top of that, they require you to go to only doctors in their "plan" or pay much higher deductibles. Many of the doctors in the "plan" learned medicine by walking around the drugstore a lot, hoping to eavesdrop on the pharmacist's conversations. Others have offices that you need a bodyguard to visit. They have a policy, that if the hospital or doctor is within convenient distance to your home, they must be dropped from the "plan" as soon as possible. Barb's "plan" (and this is no joke) refused to pay her surgeon, because they billed the "plan" after 30 days, due to an address mixup! I miss the old days when you chose your doctor by his/her expertise, not how little they charge the insurance company. Our system needs work. Ken B