Aug

19

No shame in starting over

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It appears that some moderate Democrats in Congress are at least talking about scrapping the health care plan and starting over again, reforming in increments instead of all at once.  While President Obama might see that as a setback, there is no shame in starting over.  It took Thomas Edison thousands of tries to develop a light bulb that worked the way he wanted it to.  As we pointed out before, it took over a year to get Social Security developed back in the 30’s.

What’s wrong with going back to the drawing board and finding common ground on reforms?  Now that we’ve had a summer’s worth of discussion, let’s get everyone back into a room with a bunch of paper and pencils and make a list of priorities and work on the top two or three.  Maybe, like Social Security, the President needs to create a blue ribbon panel that will go around the country and hold numerous town hall meetings to get ideas on improving health care.  All the meetings could be televised and people could e-mail ideas in if they couldn’t attend.

Don’t you think that’s a far better idea than having a couple lawmakers (and possibly lobbyists) in a room creating a 1200-page bill that hardly has any debate?  The American people are proving this summer that they want to be a part of the discussion and that they don’t think this bill is the answer.

There’s no shame in starting over, as long as it’s right in the end.

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