So they outlawed those institutions that did not meet certain minimum standards. The short term effect was that many nursing homes, ambulance services, and child care centers went out of business and millions of people had to do without these essential services. The long term effect was that quality improved but many people could no longer afford the services. If we raise taxes and let the government pay for those services, then people will have less money to buy food and clothing. Conservative pragmatism works but without liberal idealists there will never be improvement or progress.
Conservatives tend to preserve things as they are while liberals tend to change things.
Change may make things better or worse. If we fear making things worse, we will never make the changes for the better. Conservatives put emphasis on individual rights but not on common efforts to improve individual lives while liberals emphasize the quality of individual life at the expense of individual freedom. Since we know what's best for old Aunt Jane, let's do it for her regardless of what she wants because she's too old to know what's best for her. I think these are pretty accepted and pretty well defined definitions of conservative and liberal.