...and Romney won’t???
Past time for a serious, serious, third party movement. We need a conservative populist, perhaps Palin?
There gotta be somebody out there who loves this country enough to not become a typical Washington insider.
But who?
Unfortunately, the mind-set of the public regarding who should pay for hospital and physicians has been captured by the socialist Medicaid and Medicare programs.
Now the conservative politicians can only modify and tweek them.
Group health insurance has been co-opted by the Unions.
Private health insurance is governed by the States.
Since Medicaid forces hospitals and physicians to treat anyone for free - taxpayers have decided they should get something for their investment.
Tough road ahead to abolish Government programs and regulations related to the health industry - and it is an industry.
Oh come on people. If we're going to eat our own, can we at least be intellectually honest cannibals about it?
I just saw a Freeper
here sum up the 'individual mandate' of Newt's:
"Ah ah ah - not so fast my friend. The mandate he supported (along with The Heritage Foundation and many others) was an individual responsibility mandate - which could be met by either an insurance product, a HSA type product OR a bond (meaning basically you swear that you will be financially responsible for your own care.) It was based on the principle of individual responsiblity.
Now, I am not supporting that, but I am pointing out that it is not very close at all to the Obama Care mandate, which means you must by products they approve of which will be expensive and cover everything their liberal social engineers want like sex change operations and viagra and so on. The Obama Care mandate is based on the liberal template of bureaucratic control.
Now, why Newt has been ineloquent in explaining this is beyond me, but “a mandate is not necessarily a mandate.” Again, not supporting either, but they are rather different."
There's also a supporting video
here where Newt explains:
"GINGRICH: If I see somebody who's earning over $50,000 a year, who has made the calculated decision not to buy health insurance, I'm looking at somebody who is absolutely as irresponsible as anyone who was ever on welfare. Because what they've said is, A, I'm gambling that I won't get sick, and B, I'm gambling that if I do get sick, I can cheat all my neighbors. Now, when you talk to hospitals, a very significant part of their non-collectibles are people who have money, but have calculated it's not worth the cost to pay. And so I'm actually in favor of finding a way to say, whatever the appropriate level of income is, you ought to have either health insurance, or you ought to post a bond. But we have no right in this society to have a free rider approach, if we're well off economically, to cheat our neighbors."
Stop this ridiculous myth already.
Gee A new. Arrival sone only Aug 2011 !
So are you a Paul bot or Romney bot or
Obama bot ?
Who are you trolling for ?
