I have numerous professional friends who have been putting off health care needs simply because health insurance for the self employeed has become outrageously expensive for a decent policy, and those policies that are affordable simply do not cover much, especially in the way of prescription drugs. If that is "superior health care", then driving your Mercedes 150,000 miles between oil changes is "superior auto care".

The speech was brilliant. Obama essentially told the country to get off its a$$, and set the new agenda for the US - Energy independence, education and health care reform. The days where our national agenda was Death and Destruction in Iraq, a Free Ride For The Rich and No More Regulations for Corporations are over, we are to become a society centered around the needs of the average person, not around the needs of corporate fat cats and military-industrial complex oligarchs. He spoke directly to the American people as if they were adults, and the departure from the heavily-parsed child-level sentence structure of El Duce Bush to the direct, reasoned and logical structure of Obama was extraordinary. We finally have a real president.