Will it Take Getting to the Brink of the Abyss to Get America's Political Leaders to Fix Health Care the Way it Took Them to Fix the Economic Crisis?

Well, there is certainly nothing new about the fact that Pres. Bush and Congress were the last to realize that something was desperately wrong with the country. And then, after anyone paying the slightest bit of attention could see that this country's economy was going to hell in a hand basket, the absentee President and never-do-anything Congress who finally realized what so many had been shouting at them to understand for decades try to place a Band-Aid on a problem that had been seething for nearly thirty years. The constant and rampant rush to deregulate every industry in America since Ronald Reagan duped dozens of millions of Americans into voting for his insane trickle-down economic theory resulted in the meltdown of this country's basic economic infrastructure. Anybody who was willing to turn off the TV for just ten seconds could have seen it coming. And yet Pres. Bush and the Democrats acted like it just creeped up behind them like a Jason in Friday the 13^th, Part XX. Ready for an even scarier sequel?

It took almost thirty years for the Republicans and Democrats to realize that letting Big Business write their own rules could only lead to disaster. Did you have fun watching John McCain's big circus act where he pretended to arrive at the last minute like the Lone Ranger and save us all from misery? Well, one has to wonder which Presidential candidate will play the Lone Ranger in another four years when the health crisis threatens to arrive in the form of a similar meltdown? You know, it would be nice to think this country's leaders will have learned from the near apocalypse that brought us so close to the abyss that even George W. Bush himself managed to realize things weren't just jolly. I mean, if things get so bad that Bush realizes they're bad, well, that must mean things are verrrrrrrrrrry BAD.