We should take a continuous improvement approach to this, the only way to improve it is to attempt solutions, evaluate results and adapt. The way to find out if the folks on the podcast are right or not is to try their solutions. The "this won't work because..." is a mindset that I believe is a part of the problem. We can't fix health insurance because... We can't solve crime because... We can't fix education because... Failure is a part of growth, if you try something and find out it doesn't work at least you can eliminate one possibility and you'll often learn something about the problem through the exercise.
I do appreciate you making the effort, everyone else is apparently too busy tracking our pols on twitter or something.