In last Saturday's national radio address, President Barack Obama said he is ready to compromise with Republicans on healthcare but is not satisfied with doing nothing. "Let's get this done,"� he said.

At the healthcare summit last week, and again on "Meet the Press"� this past Sunday, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain said he would support passing a bill this year as long as it was a "new"� compromise, not one that merely tweaked the Democrats' current proposal for comprehensive reform.  It's not too late to do this "” even though President Obama has already apparently adopted several GOP ideas in his latest proposal.

Let's take both men at their word. Here's my specific proposal:

President Obama and...