“We need to put free-market health-care reform, not tax cuts, at the core of our economic message.”
The free market and low taxes go hand in hand. Health care reform will only work if it is done via the free market, which is at the core of Republican philosophy. The conservative movement is about core ideas, not putting our wet finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. Republicans always win when they put their core ideas out there and measure them against the way things are. They always lose when they try to compromise with the left by supporting ideas that rely on government solutions, albeit smaller big government.
Wrong. We have the best health care in the world. The only reform we need is reforming trial lawyer junk lawsuits, by capping the dollars to sue for and instituting loser pays. Lawyers must post a cash bond for the dollars they are seeking in the suit. Loser coughs up the money. 3 frivolous suits and you lose your practice.