Healthcare Reform, My Take

Everyone has an opinion on the now completed health care reform bill, so I thought I would lend mine as well. But my take isn't on the bill itself, it's the process. What bothers me the most is that the entire thing was destructive, and honestly, it has been since the beginning. Maybe it's just because of the news that I tune into, or the bits and pieces I'm able to catch, but why are members of our own government actively trying to work against each other? Why is there a blatant disregard for any attempt to actually try and compromise, listen to someone else's opinion, and work toward an ultimately better solution?

Think about this within your own company. How would you move forward and be successful if you were constantly trying to destroy, or go against what your colleagues want to do? How often do you have to compromise on a daily basis? How often do things get better because you work together?

One of the biggest things that bothered me in reading the WSJ recap of the article is that congressmen are already looking for ways to try and repeal the bill, find it unconstitutional, file lawsuits, etc. How is this productive? How does this help me, the American citizen? Why can't we say, the decision has been made, now how do we take this and make things better?

This happens every day in business. Decisions get made by leadership, and it is up to the rest of us to make them work. Yes we provide our feedback, but ultimately someone decides on a direction and we go. We may not always agree, but we figure out how to work to make things as best we can.

Or maybe that's just me...