April 30, 2008
McCain Care
The WSJ Ed Page gives high marks to Senator McCain's health care plan:
For a man whose heterodoxies have no doubt triggered GOP heartburn, John McCain delivered another speech yesterday on health care that offered a sophisticated set of policies that could lead to some of the most constructive changes to the system in decades.It is good news for his candidacy if Mr. McCain is making space now for political creativity and policy risks. Last week he laid down an economic plan, even venturing to Democratic redoubts like Youngstown, Ohio, and New Orleans's Ninth Ward. Now he has returned to his health-care reform, based on market principles and increased consumer choice, which he first outlined during the primaries.
The Senator is also starting to enfold these ideas in a larger narrative that will be indispensable in the philosophical fight that is so clearly ordained for the general election between private and government health care.
I missed the speech. I did watch a commercial on the McCain website, and I did not get the sweeping narrative. I certainly hope they are right.
While you're trolling around Mister Murdoch’s free opinion page, read Karl Rove's guest editorial, Getting To Know John McCain. It contains even more heroics from his Hanoi Hilton days. (Hat-tip: Terri)