The Right is doing a bang-up job framing the fight over health care reform as a contest between their (all-American, common sense) approach and the Obama Administration's (radical socialistic nationalism) approach. But in fact, the Obama Administration's proposals are genuinely conservative, in the dictionary sense of "cautious" and "restrained."
The "market-based" or "consumer-driven" health care proposal being pushed by "conservatives," however, is utterly untested. Nowhere on this planet is 21st-century medical care being delivered by an entirely private, "consumer-driven" health care system.
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