Health care policy is a critical issue for this country. We all need to think about it more seriously, learn the facts for ourselves, and fight the tendency to buy into branding concepts (e.g., Republican, Democrat, Socialist, Libertarian) as if they are the real issues. The bottom line for me is that we have a health insurance problem in this country, and we can’t solve it by doing nothing, or by arguing that the government needs to keep out of the health care business. They’re already in it up to their eyeballs.

It’s the hot topic in Washington and the main theme of President Obama’s many different Web and television broadcasts. It’s health care form, and it’s been used as a political power card for over a decade by more than one campaigner and incumbent. But is talking about it -however endlessly- the way to bring about [...]