The Slippery Slope of Health-Care Reform by Michael G. Franc on National Review Online

The Slippery Slope of Health-Care Reform by Michael G. Franc on National Review Online: "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?

On some days the prognosticators see less health reform in our future. According to the Washington Post, “the outpouring of anger at town hall meetings this month has fundamentally altered the nature of the debate” and convinced lawmakers such as Iowa senator Chuck Grassley to “consider drastically scaling back the scope of the effort.”

Even if this should prove true, and the reform effort ultimately gives way to a set of insurance-market reforms spun as minor tweaks to enhance our health “security,” it will be crucial for Americans to understand the slippery slope of liberal health-care reform and why liberals cannot ratchet back their reform ambitions."