STOP US BEFORE WE KILL AGAIN:

President Obama, Congress should set health-care reform aside (The Seattle Times, 12/19/09)

THE health-care dance in Washington, D.C., has gone on long enough. Congress needs to focus on the economy and set health care aside.

This is a change of position for us. This page supported Barack Obama for president, enthusiastically. We have supported the health-care effort until now. We still support universal coverage as a social goal.

But the longer the fight goes on, the more it feels that the timing is all wrong. The economy is wounded. Employers are hurting. The time to think about loading employers with new burdens is when they are strong. Not now.

It's nice to know that there are times even they think it's a mistake to cripple business with onerous burdens.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 20, 2009 5:18 PM