An opt-out would be ideal, but I don’t think it’s going to happen.
You guys do realize that when you say things like:
You’re going to FORCE me to pay these lowlifes to have insurance? Why do I have to pay for them?
. . . you are denying that you already do?
When an illegal waltzes into a hospital and gets free treatment for some emergency matter, and doesn’t pay, to whom do you think the hospital passes along the cost? When they do, what do you think happens to your insurance premiums?
When you come to that place on your 1040 where it says the US government will subsidize your health care up to about 30% (that’s what a tax deduction is — a subsidy) for all amounts over 7% AGI, why don’t you complain? Why don’t you point at that and demand that Congress eliminate that tax deduction? Why? Because we don’t look deeply enough. We think a tax deduction is something special when mathematically it looks no different from a 30% subsidy.
So Romney proposes a requirement that is Not a single payer system, is Not a nationalizing of the health insurance industry and is No more a requirement for the taxpayer to fund it than the taxpayer already does, and folks decide that this is bad.
The only sophisticated health care proposal from any GOP candidate at all that is so far to the right of a government administered single payer system that Hillary cringed at the thought — and folks here want to declare it to be somehow different from the socialized approach that already exists in the status quo.
You guys had better get recalibrated on this. If you lose you are irrelevant. The irrelevant get to live in Hillary’s surrender first world where you will pay more in taxes and watch those tax dollars fund MoveOn as a non faith based charity.