As the political campaigns bore through the summer heat, reforming various government programs is clearly on the agenda-- and just as clearly, delivering on that agenda will have to wait until after the election.
Interlocking reforms look to be necessary. Simplifying the tax code, reforming entitlements, and cutting defense spending seem to be the elements attracting majority support in the effort to get the government's finances under control. Alas, as always, the devil is in the details.
Supporting people in their attempts to move out of nursing homes is, in the big picture, a detail. It's also, however, something that would resonate with most people if presented to them clearly and simply. Americans respond to arguments grounded in a need for freedom and imdependence. A series in a major newspaper might do it, or a series of television news reports, or perhaps television ads put forward by a PAC. Getting the program in front of the people before legislative battles fire up in earnest again might pay dividends.
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