“With the passions rising in the health care debate, there’s a bit of a tendency to get crusty and brittle in our ability to compromise, and to keep the “all or nothing” psychological trump cards at bay. The wrangling on SCHIP is already giving everyone a run for his (or her) money in the ‘divided we fall’ camp. Yet being in the middle is exactly where we need to be if positive incremental change — the kind that does justice to the every day lives of ordinary people — is going to happen. “
See my entire post over at the World Health Care Blog.
