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Especially since a right winger who the GOP thought prestigious enough to run as one of their main Presidential candidates created a similar plan in his own state.
Mitt Romney's health insurance plan also had an individual mandate, used taxes to help with cost and was specifically designed to cover the previously uninsured.
It also had tax penalties for not having insurance and private rather than state sponsored insurance was offered.
So what is with the screaming about ObamaCare (especially the HR bills were written largely by Congress) when in fact it is essentially a version of RomneyCare?
Romney Care is a failure.
Are you suggesting that fact be ignored to impliment it on a national scale?
But yet AFTER the fact, the GOP still had him as one of their top Presidential candidates.
Plus he can go to a conservative conference and defend a man who can hardly be called conservative in any meaningful way.
If RomneyCare is such an abject failure why is Romney a prominent speaker for conference full of people who (more hypocrisy) criticize a plan that is essentially like his own?
Do you have any data that people in Massachusetts don't like their health care?
Romney Care is a failure.
Are you suggesting that fact be ignored to impliment it on a national scale?
The larger the pool of participants the cheaper insurance plans become. That is how insurance works. Another words the larger the pool of premium paying people the better it gets. Those who pay premiums are paying for other folks medical care until it becomes their turn to collect and others will pay. The state of Massachusetts is not large enough to bring costs down.
Well, it looks like we are getting a sneak peak at the real ObamaCare (the misnomered Congressional bills actually the disowned offspring of RomneyCare).
Romney like many Republicans and Conservatives is opposed to a government run single payer system and the Public Option. Romney, like many Republicans, endorse coverage for pre-existing conditions, increased insurance portability, caps on malpractice lawsuits, and tax benefits aimed at making health insurance more affordable.
Furthermore, not all Republicans or Conservatives opposes Massachusetts style of health care reform. Yes, it does include some socialistic aspects which I'm okay with. The bottom line is it increases coverage but it still utilizes the current model and doesn't have a government run and administered health care system which is what would eventually occur with the formation of a public option, hence the reason Romney opposed it. I don't mind that people are required to have health insurance and that employers are required to provide health insurance or pay a fine
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