“ This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership. ”
Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?
~ Jim Cooper
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.
I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.
