Originally Posted by Duncan Wells
During Obama's speech I was waiting to hear something about young families and the cost of having a child. In Canada it's covered. We have two children - both adults now. They almost put us in the poorhouse raising the buggers but it didn't cost anything to bring them into the world. Does anyone know if, under Obama's HCR plan, will child birth be covered? JMO but I thought his speech was very clever. Except for the tiny outburst by crazy Joe Wilson, things went quite wll. A few times throughout the presentation it almost seemed that both parties were on the same side. That was nice to see for a change.


Why would the cost of child birth be a government responsibility.