[Sudetenland]

Anyone who believes that "If you like your current healthcare plan, you can keep it," is smoking something more than regular cigarettes (which will soon be illegal).

In the face of a government sponsored healthcare plan, all private insurance plans will gradually fade away as the cost of keeping them becomes prohibitively high...except for the few wealthy elite.

They never intended to keep that "promise." Old Ted "The Lady Killer" Kennedy's plan just does away with the gradual process in favor of an abrupt change.

Of course those in the government will continue to have "Cadillac" plans...just as the old Soviet Communist Party leaders had "special privileges."

[cbkaty]

all private insurance plans will gradually fade away

Gradually? They'll disappear faster than a cold glass of ice tea in the Texas summer heat...