Real Reform and Diversions

Representative Paul Ryan, in a brilliant Washington Post piece, cuts through the static and gets to the heart of what the debate on health care is really about:

If this debate had actually been about health care, we could have worked together to get a grip on costs, make quality care more accessible, address exclusions for preexisting conditions and realign the incentives of insurance companies with those of patients and doctors. Yet this process -- including its embarrassing conclusion -- demonstrates that the debate has never been about health-care policy but, instead, paternalistic ideology.