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Karl Rove has put together a summary of the Republican proposals for health care/insurance reform. While this is long on platitudes and short on specifics (which have been presented by various Republican Congressmen), it does set forth several good ideas. I have my doubts about some of them (the proposal to allow employers, or anyone else, to promote employees’ healthy lifestyles is particularly suspicious). Overall, though, to the extent they actually are substantive, these proposals are sound. They rely on private markets and more individual choice, rather than on the notoriously incompetent public servants, to make medical decisions.
“The facts of life are conservative.” - Margaret Thatcher
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