New Congress Unlikely To Address Issue Of Uninsured, Opinion Piece Says

“If you voted in the hope of getting some quick solutions to the problems we face here at home,” such as the lack of health insurance for more than 40 million U.S. residents, “don’t hold your breath” because most congressional candidates “haven’t the foggiest idea how to fix them,” Donald Lambro, chief political correspondent for the Washington Times, writes in an opinion piece. According to Lambro, although the issue of the uninsured “remains a huge and growing problem argued over election after election,” none of the candidates this year provided “a clear, workable proposal … about what should be done about it.” He adds that, according to voters and state party chairs, “candidates too often got sidetracked by silly, marginal, low-priority issues that didn’t deal with the serious problems that worried them — like health care, job creation or Social Security reform.” Lambro proposes as a “partial fix” that the uninsured should have the ability to deduct their health care costs from their income taxes. “Elections that do not deal with substantive issues will not produce the mandate needed to address them,” he writes, adding, “A national debate over health care reforms … will have to await the 2008 presidential election” (Lambro, Washington Times, 11/9).

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