Smells Like Conservative Spirit
Robert Goldberg urges conservatives to see the bright side of the recently passed Medicare bill (yes, there is one) and accept that a prescription drug benefit was inevitable in a piece at NRO:
Conservative angst about this bill pits the perfect against the good. Here we have the first change in Medicare that does not include government price controls or rationing, that consists largely of giving people choices and plans tax credits, that means tests a benefit, that encourages competition and the initial conservative reaction is that liberals will turn this into a command and control entitlement. Conservatives need to have faith in their own abilities and principles. This is the first salvo in a long struggle to remake the two largest government entitlements, and conservatives should view it as such.
A must read for all those conservatives who can't seem to stop squawking about the bill, especially those who play trivia on Thursday evenings at a certain Irish pub in Nordeast Minneapolis.
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