Your editorial on Thursday can best be described by that old saw, “When in doubt, shout.” You missed a great opportunity to be a voice of reason. Why not suggest that President Obama adopt a tactic his campaign oratory suggested?

Invite the Democrat and Republican leaders to the White House assuming both parties want to improve health care. Ask each party to put their own major ideas for improvement on the table. Then insist that each side weave together a bill embodying those 10 proposals, which would then be brought to the House of Representatives and the Senate with the president insisting that he would only sign a bill that had the support of a majority of both Republican and Democrat caucuses in both houses.

He should further insist that the entire proceeding be aired on C- Span. Such a proposal would guarantee furious opposition from special interests on both the left and the right but might raise the president’s approval rating with the public.

Paul Overgaard

Albert Lea