With all the churning going on about President Obamas health care plan, I cant help but wonder if his plan had been in place in 2002, whether I would be alive today or not. Lest you think Im being unduly dramatic, you should know that seven years ago I had a malignant polyp removed from my colon. What was unusual was that I was in my forties, and the best practices indicate that a persons first colonoscopy occurs at age 50 - at the earliest.