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Now that we’ve forced the debate, Americans are turning against the idea that government should be responsible for guaranteeing insurance for all.  A recent Gallup poll reveals:

The primary change has been among Republicans and Republican-leaners. For years a surprising number on the right answered affirmative when asked whether government is responsible for making sure that all Americans have health coverage. When actual legislative items aren’t on the table, people are more likely to give the feel good answer. This is why it’s imperative to constantly educate and make the case for small government as we are doing now.

Now that we are winning the argument, it’s time to roll out with some specific small-government reforms, like the promotion of insurance competition across state lines, the equalization of the tax treatment of employer and individual purchased insurance, and a necessary overhall of Medicare which ideally would lead away from the third-party payer system. The idea isn’t that they’ll pass under the Democrats, but that getting them into the public conciousness is a necessary step to being able to implement them down the road.