[cross posted @ Kos.]

Health care seems to be the juggernaut issue for the next several years -- one which both parties have tried to avoid. It's closing in on all of us, one way or another: Costs continue to spiral upwards to the tune of 10-13% a year; people get dumped from the rolls; GM is cutting benefits, along with other relatively generous companies; etc. A continuous drumbeat of lousy news for us. We all know our "system", if you can call it that, is busted.

So why doesn't anything get done at the federal level, which is where such reform really ought to occur? There's certainly enough blame to go around, but let's start with who we can control: Ourselves. As John Edwards says in his recent anti-poverty speeches, "We are the ones we've been waiting for."