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  • Division on the Right. Ambivalence about Bush's Medicare bill.

    11/21/2003 6:25:48 AM PST · by .cnI redruM · 108 replies · 199+ views
    NRO ^ | November 21, 2003, 9:00 a.m. | Ramesh Ponnuru
    No conservative can be happy about giving at least $400 billion in additional taxpayer funding to an entitlement program. Many conservatives would have been willing to go along with the expansion of Medicare if they thought that the program would simultaneously be reformed in a major way. Most conservatives outside Congress don't believe that the current Medicare bill offers nearly enough reform. Accordingly, it is being opposed by the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and other conservative organizations. A few brave Republican congressmen, notably Reps. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania...