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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (6363)	3/13/2009 7:18:04 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Its not too hard to come up with ideas, or too hard (probably even easier) to shoot down ideas (I think I'm a bit better at that 2nd skill), but its really hard to come up with good solutions to long term complex problems that have a decent shot at working (if it was they probably would have never became long term problems in the first place). Shooting down ideas that are problematic and very unlikely to work is important, but its also important that when its done, that people don't stop trying to think up new ideas. With complex problems you have to examine a lot of ideas, to get a few that deserve a lot more time and debate, to get even fewer that get actually tried, hopefully to eventually get one (maybe one out of many thousands) that might actually solve the problem, or more likely (many problems like this are never fully solved) improve the situation.