Hopefully, President Obama and the leadership in Congress will listen now that their health care reform effort suffered a major setback with the Massachusetts senate election, AWB President Don Brunell writes in his weekly column.
Rather than throw out our entire health care system, they need to embrace what is working and fix what is not, Brunell writes.
Big ideas take time to perfect -- like grandma's soup or President Eisenhower's vision for a 47,000-mile highway system.
"Like health care, the interstate system would be hugely expensive. But Ike was patient, and it took three years for Congress to pass the legislation and another 35 years before construction was finished," Brunell writes. "It ended in 1991 with the removal of the last stoplight on Interstate 90 in Wallace, Idaho."
Read the full column here.
