Heal the Economy, Start Over on Health Care Reform

J.D. Foster / November 06, 2009

As the economy sputters and falters the questions coming up time and again are: What should Obama do? What can Congress do?

They’ve tried spending their way to prosperity and as today’s jobs numbers show, 3.5 million jobs lost since Obama took office and an unemployment rate that shot up to 10.2 percent is damning evidence, turning the propaganda ploy of arguing for 600,000 stimulus-created jobs into a brazen farce.

They’ve tried to play Washington games with certain sectors and it didn’t work. Cash for clunkers gave car sales a quick pop, but much of it went to imports and in any event it evaporated as quickly as it appeared. Whatever help the first-time homebuyer tax credit provided the housing market is now spent.

Forget what failed in the past, what can they do now? Apropos the health care vote scheduled in the House for Saturday: First, do no harm. (more…)