President Obama

We Aren't Ready For National Health Care

by Lee Stranahan

Health care is an issue n3ear and dear to my heart. Well, it's near and dear to my diabetic eyes. My heart just checked out okay. But I want a comprehensive national health care system. And pronto.

But as a nation, we're not quite ready for it. Yet. It's baby steps time and not because Obama is timid. There's a much bigger problem that he has to tackle first. Let me put it this way...

Would you have wanted the Bush Administration running a comprehensive national health care system?

Shudder to think. You can paint your own nightmare scenarios pretty easily. The first steps in getting a health care system we can count on is to get a government we can count on. Restore the rule of law, set up transparency, get rid of the lobbyists. In other words, Obama's current agenda.