Gerson: Republicans Can Win the Debate Over Health Care

WASHINGTON POST, 6/5/2009 by Michael Gerson - Obamacare's Antidote: Fortunately for Republicans, health care is an issue on which conservative policy wonks have been creatively at work for a decade. Most Republican reforms involve shifting away from employer-based health insurance -- replacing the massive tax breaks for companies with subsidies to individuals and families to purchase coverage on their own. Employer-based coverage, in this view, has eaten up salary increases, hidden the rising costs of health care and made workers afraid to change jobs in an economy where flexibility is essential. Read more at the Washington Post...

Hat tip: John H. Detweiler
John says, "The health care follies are getting serious."