Ryan Ellis from Americans for Tax Reform yesterday criticized a memo Stuart Butler and I wrote about the promises President-elect Barack Obama made about health care reform. The point of our memo was to keep Obama honest to key campaign promises he made on health that appealed to Republican and conservative voters.

Obama is already hoping these voters will forget the promises he made to win them over. We want to hold Obama to account, and make sure he crafts health care reform that abides by popular principles of choice, affordability, stability and freedom — not a standardized system imposed from Washington.

Ellis outlines what he considers the “good,” “not-so-good,” and “ugly” ideas in our memo. He’s entitled to his opinion, of course, but it’s unfortunate he chose to distort our views and our record. I stand by Heritage’s work in the area of health care reform. Here’s why:

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