Dear President Obama,
I could hardly be more confident, nor more delighted, that the country is in your hands. I thank you for the hard work you and your team are doing in so many areas of national need.
Like any other politically engaged citizen, I have my wishlist of the problems I'd like for you to tackle, and I'm amazed by how many checks I'm penciling in on that list. However, none of the items on my wishlist are based in any philosophy or doctrine, as I don't really know much about such things. Each item on my wishlist is based on this average citizen's plain observation, over many years, of what it seems to the country needs.
And the number one item on my wishlist, universal health care, got a strangely unconvincing answer from you in your digital town hall meeting on 3/26/09. I don't have a transcript in front of me, but it seems to me I heard you say that we couldn't have single-payer because, at least in part, some people aren't used to that, that they're used to getting insurance through their employer or in some other way.
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