The Slippery Slope of Health-Care Reform

Gerrit Lansing / August 27, 2009

Writing for the National Review’s blog, The Corner, Heritage’s Mike Franc details at length the evolution of this summer’s health care debate, what works, what doesn’t and who to be afraid of: “Beware the modest proposals of extreme leftists.”

Each day brings another twist to the health-care-reform saga. Should the president heed the braying of his hard-left allies, manipulate Senate procedural rules, and push through a massive overhaul of our entire health-care system? Or should he scale back the ambition of the proposals already approved by four congressional committees and settle for a “modest” set of reforms to protect consumers from the predations of those sinister health-insurance companies? And, of course, there’s that nettlesome “public plan” option: Should it stay, or should it go? (more…)