Stability and Portability

Yuval Levin, Weekly Standard, highlighting an unexpected opportunity for Republicans on health care--swing voters and women in key states for 2008 are cold to the idea of "government-run health care". There is an emerging GOP consensus similar to what Gov. Romney tried in Massachusetts, with some reservations:

But on the whole, Republicans have put forward serious yet modest proposals that address voters' concerns about the stability and portability of their insurance coverage and help the uninsured while keeping in place a private insurance system that works quite well for the great majority of Americans. The overreaching of the Democrats may hand Republicans an unexpected opportunity on health care reform. Both parties are seeking to address the concerns of the middle class and uninsured, but the Republican approach builds on what most middle-class voters like about the current system (its relative freedom, lack of waiting, and decent quality), while the Democratic approach builds on what they don't like (bureaucracy and loss of control over health decisions).

Maybe Republicans can triangulate on this issue and outdo the Clintons.