My biggest issue with health care reform (and most legislation for that matter) is how it gets pushed through. Health care shouldn't be about whether you are a democrat or a republican, but what is best for the most amount of people. However, each side has drawn their lines and aren't looking at the evidence (ie, that preventative medicine doesn't lower cost). How can we make such a huge investment without public hearings. Why aren't experts testify on capital hill? One of my MBA professors last quarter went and met with the Obama admin, along with a handful of other economist. There was near universal concurrence that the public plan was bad and one way to control health cost was to eliminate the insurance tax deductions. Something as large as health care reform should be a multi year long process, not something you can attached an arbitrary time frame to.