The Audacity of Hope

We know that our health-care system is broken: wildly expensive,terribly inefficient,and poorly adapted to an economy no longer built on lifetime employment,a system that exposes hardworking Americans to chronic insecurity and possible destitution. But year after year,ideology and political gamesmanship result in inaction,except for 2003,when we got a prescription drug bill that somehow managed to combined the worst aspects of the public and private sectors-price gouging and bureaucratic confusion,gaps in coverage and an eyepopping bill for taxpayers. From President Barack Obama 2006.