What's the big deal about healthcare? This topic I struggle with. I don't see how a national healthcare program would infringe on our rights as an individual. In Alabama, we are already required to pay car insurance for the safety of our car.  Why shouldn't we pay taxes for health insurance for the safety of our bodies! The poor overwhelmingly support this bill, so obviously the money is not the issue.  Is the issue the pride? Must we depend on our own hard work for everything? Obviously we love help because we have religions based off of gods who help us, so why must we neglect help from other human beings? Wars happen because the countries refuse to help each other, so why not avoid that altogether? National healthcare is not a revolutionary idea, it had been going on in other countries for years.  Lucas Siefert was telling us the other day that national healthcare isn't even a problem because it's just how things are.  Only because we are given the opportunity for protecting our selves is it a problem.  After years of continuation, things become the norm.  Civil rights is now no longer an issue to the young generation of 2013, 50 years from now, gay marriage will be just as normal.  Healthcare will be the same way.