The system hardly works at all.

Barack Obama is finally taking to the podium. To the bully pulpit. To try to sell the health care reform package to the public. And it's about time. I just hope it's not too late. Obama should have been doing this right from the start. From the first day that he took office. Instead, he tossed the assignment into the lap of a plodding Congress. In the halls of partisan bickering. Seems to be that was a mistake. But still, Obama is trying to salvage something from it. Far from what's really needed. Complete reform. A single-payer system. Medicare for all. Instead, at best, we'll plod along. Get a little bit of reform here and there. That's the way the system works. Yes, it hardly works at all. --Jim Broede