Middleview,

No, I'm not suggesting he respond to anything that has been raised by anyone. But there are valid concerns and fears, caused in part by things the President and his supporters have said during the campaign or since. To name just three (there are dozens):

1. His rather unguarded discussion about how "we" might want to tell an older woman that she could not get the hip replacement, but give her pain pills instead, was scary to me. (Who's "We?")

2. The argument that a public option would drive out the employer-provided plans is quite valid, economically.

3. The inability of our Federal Government to be competent and thrifty in almost everything it does raises a flag. Anyone trying to add more to the Federal Government's plate needs to explain how he will keep that from happening to health care, a sixth of our economy and a life-or-death matter to all of us.

He should focus on the substantive issues, not the slogans of a few. If he (or his supporters) do nothing except mock the "death panel" folks, he will lose me. (If I run into someone here on the Fray who just spews inflammatory slogans, half truths, vitriol, name-calling, mocking, snarky and vile rhetoric, etc., I just pass by. I don't respond.) If he thinks some of the things that have been said are untrue and unfair, he should ignore them. There are plenty of substantive concerns that have been raised during this last month which need to be addressed.