By all accounts the President is regrouping on health care with an eye toward a restart with more bipartisan input and perhaps the views of some people who actually know what they are talking about.
This means more delay which may be a good thing if the legislation is improved and made more realistic.
Who knows what will happen or when, but it is clear that the economy and jobs will take the front burner in the months ahead.
It also appears that a new push will be made to “educate” Americans about the reform effort. However, what is really needed is to educate Americans about health care, how it is provided, paid for and why true “reform” is the real need. A sales pitch on the current proposals is no more than a con job. That we don’t need.
While reducing the federal deficit is very important, reforming health care that results in costing shifting from the federal budget to the private sector as it stands now, is the last thing we need.
Many of us thought health care reform would have been a done deal at this point. Oops. But the good news is that we can look forward to having more fun in the spring.
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