While Charlie Crist ponders whether Marco Rubio got his back waxed and brags about re-soling his eight-year-old shoes, this seems a good time to remind people that there is a difference between being cheap and being fiscally conservative.
Cheap is expanding who qualifies for Medicaid but reducing payments to doctors for those beneficiaries. Fiscally conservative is remaking the program. Cheap is using ten years of taxes to pay for six years of insurance. Fiscally conservative is not creating a new entitlement. Cheap is getting an $11 haircut. Fiscally conservative is going bald.
