I was with her right until the end of her post. I think she is quite right to say that conservatives need an alternative health-care plan. I don’t think that we need to, or should, embrace universal coverage as a goal. (Obama didn’t while campaigning in a Democratic primary, and he did ok.) We can address people’s concerns about portability, affordability, and control without universal coverage, and achieving universal coverage may require some trade-offs that aren’t worth making. I haven’t yet seen a “market-driven universal coverage” plan that really deserves the label.

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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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