Again, Julia police, schools, are all GOVERNMENT. They work for the government. Insurance companies are for profit only. You can only receive government finded insurance (medicaid, medicare) if you are low income or retired. Government cannot start competition with private companies. Somy question remains, do you propose that we let U.S. Government take control of for profit, privately owned insurance companies ? forget gornment offering insurance, we would have to no less than double all taxes in the country. We are talking about 300 million insurance policies. Even if every 1 person has 2 check up for year we are taking in the ballpark of 3.5 TRILLION dollars per year. Thats more than the cost of anything on earth.