Will it be single-payer? If conservatives don’t offer a viable alternative using incremental changes, single-payer is what we will (eventually) get. Yuval Levin and Ramesh Ponnuru point conservatives in the direction of the reforms we need.
And from now a word from William Voegeli (via James Pethokoukis):
There can be no conservative welfare state if conservatives insist there can be no constitutional welfare state.
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