Matt Miller on health care in the FT:
The Republican charge that Barack Obama is seeking a “government takeover” of US healthcare is further proof that American political rhetoric has become detached from reality. In fact, once you take away the proposed public insurance option, which Mr Obama’s aides have signalled they will drop in final negotiations, the likely outcome is an affordable reform that embraces Mitt Romney’s blueprint from Massachusetts and funds it with John McCain’s best idea from the presidential campaign.Because clearly, the establishment of a health care exchange means that America will never be free again. Posted by Stephen Silver at July 15, 2009 04:58 PMOnly in America can you co-opt Republican thinking and have critics label you “socialist”