Pete,

Amen!!! You finally had a great idea. I became convinced that we had the best healthcare system in the world when my cardiologist told me that, if I did not have valve replacement surgery immediately, I would be dead from a massive heart attack in less than six months. Under our current healthcare system, I was diagnosed with a bum valve on January 10, 2008, and I had valve replacement surgery on January 25, 2008. The surgery was on a Friday, and I got out of the hospital on Monday. I was out of the hospital before my boss at the Health Department got around to visiting me. He visited an empty room. I don’t believe any bureaucrat in Washington (or any other place) would or could have acted so rapidly, not even if Barack himself was the bureaucrat. Don’t let the barackcrats mislead you. It is not our healthcare system that needs reforming. It is the barackcrats and the democrats who could stand a trip through the town of Reform while the good ole itinerant preacher was preaching his heart out to no avail. That preacher is still preaching. Let’s hope America listens this time, even if those poor people in Reform did not.