A Republican senator says most Americans he's been speaking to at town hall meetings tell him they don't want to pay for the creation of a new federal healthcare entitlement -- and they don't trust the government managing such a program.

Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota) says the crowds and the intensity at the town hall meetings he has been addressing cannot be manufactured, but instead are part of a genuine "organic" movement. Thune says one of the biggest concerns that he is hearing from constituents about the healthcare legislation being considered in Congress is that they do not want to pay for a more than $1-trillion expansion of federal healthcare when the country is already running trillion-dollar deficits "as far as the eye can see"...