Health Insurance Reform Opportunity For Right To Return To True Conservatism
[10/02/07]
Where is the Conservatism in the so-called Conservative Republican Party? The Republican Party as defined by the Ronald Reagan’s of the world and the Barry Goldwater’s of the world was the party of small Government and fiscal responsibility. The New Conservatives show very little love for small government, quite the opposite, as some analysts would have it. Now on the issue of healthcare and affordable health insurance the Republicans vying for the White House have a true opportunity to return to the true conservative roots of the party or continue down the path of the Bush Administration.
Of the Republican candidates for the White House that have come out with their health insurance reform plans, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney clearly espouses the “Big Government ” approach to affordable healthcare insurance. He was responsible for forming the groundwork for the current Massachusetts Mandate on health insurance, which resembles most if not all of the Democrats plans for Universal Healthcare. Talk about big government, that plan in his former state not only mandated coverage by law but created a new bureaucracy in the Commonwealth Connector – a new agency set up to oversee compliance with the mandate. There really is no way to relate Romney’s proposed plan for taking this style of healthcare insurance reform nationwide to anything resembling traditional small government conservatism.
Of the other republican candidates so far the only eon offering anything close to a true conservative initiative, surprisingly is former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Rudy’s plan encourages consumerism and consumer choice when it comes to finding affordable health insurance options. His plan calls for ways to actually reduce the regulatory strangle holds on the health insurance market, and offers ways to effect changes in tax laws that were designed to push people into the most expensive and most comprehensive of health insurance policies.
There is still a lot of time before the election of 2008 to discus the merits of either plan or the ones yet to be put forth by every candidate on the right. However the entire issue of affordable health insurance is an opportunity for the Republican Party to show the American public that it can return to its core values of small non-intrusive government and individual liberties.
Of the Republican candidates for the White House that have come out with their health insurance reform plans, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney clearly espouses the “Big Government ” approach to affordable healthcare insurance. He was responsible for forming the groundwork for the current Massachusetts Mandate on health insurance, which resembles most if not all of the Democrats plans for Universal Healthcare. Talk about big government, that plan in his former state not only mandated coverage by law but created a new bureaucracy in the Commonwealth Connector – a new agency set up to oversee compliance with the mandate. There really is no way to relate Romney’s proposed plan for taking this style of healthcare insurance reform nationwide to anything resembling traditional small government conservatism.
Of the other republican candidates so far the only eon offering anything close to a true conservative initiative, surprisingly is former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Rudy’s plan encourages consumerism and consumer choice when it comes to finding affordable health insurance options. His plan calls for ways to actually reduce the regulatory strangle holds on the health insurance market, and offers ways to effect changes in tax laws that were designed to push people into the most expensive and most comprehensive of health insurance policies.
There is still a lot of time before the election of 2008 to discus the merits of either plan or the ones yet to be put forth by every candidate on the right. However the entire issue of affordable health insurance is an opportunity for the Republican Party to show the American public that it can return to its core values of small non-intrusive government and individual liberties.
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