A Season Of Discontent?

For Jews, the month of Elul is a time of stocktaking, introspection, reconciliation and spirituality, activities which America's  leadership might emulate with respect to our health care system. It is not a time for  a Quicken-type printout of  life's balance sheet and a perfunctory paper plan for change, nor is it a time to measure health care only in economic terms.  It is a time to ask how our health system reflects out national values, where have we achieved our goals and where have we fallen short, to genuinely express regret over our national failure to provide appropriate health care to all Americans, to recognize that our unwillingness to take societal responsibility for health care represents a serious deficiency in the American spiritual system, to acknowledge that there is a greater good which must be achieved,  to describe, adopt and implement an appropriate Health Plan and then move-on.

This is not a season of discontent.  It is a time for hard work and political commitment  which will bring appropriate health care to all Americans, the poor, the rich, the weak, the old, and all of our children. It is a time when our mirrors' reflections should allow us to observe ourselves with pride, knowing that as a nation we have done the right thing.