The cold war of American health care

An op-ed in the WSJ about how the Democrats are being outmaneuvered on health care:

How goes the cold war? We refer to the never-ending twilight struggle between advocates of socialized medicine in America and those who believe economically competent Americans should be required to budget and save for their own health care, as they do for the rest of their personal consumption . .

. . . Republicans, however convoluted and spendthrift, have a strategy — turning Medicare into a welfare program for poor seniors. Democrats have only a feckless hope that if they stall long enough, the problems will be so bad that the American people will vote for a universal government-run health system. That strategy is already a loser, however long the war drags on.