Health care costs out of control: Solution 2: Be informed

Read both sides of the issue.

Senator John Cornyn asks some good questions in this commentary on Forbes.com. He mentions everyday Americans are reading the proposed bill H.R. 3200 (text) (PDF), so hey, before I make brash statements about what it will or won't do, I have some light reading to do.

And for a good book on President Obama's health care reform, check out the book Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform (and glance at my review). I learned a lot about some of the advantages of the proposed reform.

Update: Here's a good starting place to look at the most recent proposals of the Senate version, at a Wall Street Journal blog on health care. 564 amendments to it already! Who could possibly keep up with all this? And what is scary is that this bill will be a long-term change to everything; good or bad; so I think that we need to put more thought into fixing something that took 40 years to go bad, and not try to fix it in 40 days.

The economy is currently far too fragile to risk something this big and costly.