It is also worth pointing out something Romney
said when attacking HillaryCare yesterday:
Our objectives in health care are to bring down the
costs of health insurance for everyone and to get all of our
citizens inside the system - to get them all insured. What her plan
does is it relies on government.
This is problematic, because once conservatives start to argue that
the ultimate goal is to achieve universal coverage, they've lost.
When they do this, it just becomes an argument over degree, and not
principle; it becomes about what plan ofters more of a guarantee
that the shared goal of universal coverage is met. I reject the
argument that Republicans can "neutralize" this issue by the type
of major concessions Romney made in Massachusetts. This was the
same bill of goods conservatives were sold with the Medicare
prescription drug plan, and here we are four years later still
talking about how to close the gap on this issue.
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Health Care, Medicare
