What's Wrong with Sensible Health Care Reform?

This article by Charles Krauthammer makes perfect sense to me.

His main argument: "Do health care the right way — one reform at a time, each simple and simplifying, aimed at reducing complexity, arbitrariness, and inefficiency." The reforms he advocates: Tort reform, interstate purchasing. and taxing employee benefits.

Someone tell me what's wrong with this incremental approach that he advocates?



   

Ah, the Rhetoric

Today we vote whether to even discuss one of the greatest issues of our generation - indeed, one of the greatest issues this body has ever face: whether this nation will finally guarantee its people the right to live free from the fear of illness and death, which can be prevented by decent health care for all.

Source: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Senate floor speech on the procedural vote on health care reform
November 21, 2009
Bold face font added for emphasis because it's so ridiculous. 

And Democrats accuse Republicans of fear-mongering...