Healthcare in America — The Next Conversation Part 8 – Where Do We Go From Here? – Video

Part 8 Where Do We Go From Here?

I love music, but I don’t really have a clue what is good or bad. I know what I like. I’ve always enjoyed listening to Bonnie Tyler belt out “Holding Out for a Hero,” and maybe that’s what we need now, not necessarily a hero in the way we usually think of one, but someone who can see the possibilities here and is willing to take up the fight.

It doesn’t have to be someone with billions of dollars. It could be someone with a voice that reaches millions of people. It could be someone with the resources to put an idea in front of people who would never otherwise see it. It could be someone who simply has enough credibility that people will stop and listen when they say, “Maybe we ought to think about this.”

Because that’s really what I’m talking about.

And I’ve tried very hard not to tell you that I have The Answer.

I don’t.

Maybe I’ve done something more useful.

Maybe I’ve simply put an idea on the table.

If it is a good idea, somebody else can pick it up, challenge it, improve it and carry it farther than I ever could.

And if it isn’t a good idea, then I hope somebody tells me why.

That’s the way this is supposed to work.

It doesn’t belong to Democrats.

It doesn’t belong to Republicans.

It doesn’t belong to any political label.

It belongs to the people who would have to live with whatever we eventually build.

So maybe the question isn’t whether there is a hero out there.

Maybe the question is whether there is someone willing to become the voice for an idea that might be worth pursuing.

Any heroes out there?