Working Out the Kinks in the Health Care Act Re "Health Chaos Ahead" (column, April 26): David Brooks may be correct that there will be numerous complications enacting and carrying out provisions of the new health care law, or Obamacare, as even the president now calls it. Perhaps some aspects of it could be improved. But the fact is that for over a hundred years, since Theodore Roosevelt, various American presidents have tried to make the situation here as it is in other first-world nations, where there is universal health care. And, until Barack Obama, all failed. It is true that the Republicans have a simpler solution, which is "No!" But most of us will patiently wait for the kinks to be worked out in a system that, for the first time in our history, covers almost all of us. David Brooks's jeremiad against the Affordable Health Care Act reminded me of similar warnings, some reasoned, some virulent, against the installation of Social Security in the 1930s, during my youth. Then, as now, the opposition did its best to tie an anchor to the floating of a new concept designed to benefit our society. The naysayers and haters of President Franklin D. Roosevelt were proved wrong over the years. I am confident that as the new program is rolled out, as the public is better informed and as necessary adjustments are made, once again reason and the good will of the American people will prevail against cynicism.