Charles Krauthammer's column in today's edition of the Washington Post suggests a plan to correct the current ills of our health care program. It won't be considered, of course, because he suggests it.

So why didn't the last administration sort things out during all the long years in which it was in control? Could it possibly be that they didn't it to be done? And in opposition they still don't want it to be done?

Sixty years since the NHS was set up. Plenty of time to work out and introduce a more acceptable way of achieving the same goal in an American way, if that had been what was actually wanted.