More on Bush's health care plan

While watching President Bush's State of the Union address last night, I was wondering when Bush would get more specific on his proposed health care plan for U.S. citizens.

Of course, these types of speeches are not meant to be specific, but are just intended to give a general overview. When all else fails, I wanted to see exactly what he proposed.

More of a "private insurance plan" than anything, Bush's plan would be to give a tax deduction for privately-funded health care benefits, at a government cost of $30 billion to $40 billion annually.

Bush's plan would start in 2009 and be revenue neutral over its first 10 years. Is this better news than the current state of the Iraq war? You make that call :-)