“Anyone lacking insurance coverage on Dec. 31 will lose the personal exemption on their state income tax filing next spring, equal to $219. If they remain uninsured into 2008, they will be taxed up to 50 percent of the cost of the least expensive private insurance plan — an estimated hit of at least $150 a month.”[It sounds like everyone has to buy a health plan. If they don’t, then they have to pay more taxes. I see no problem with everyone having a health plan, the same as I see no problem with requiring car insurance, but I’d like to see “self-insured” as one of the options for those who can demonstrate the financial resources.]
That’s $1800 a year, but there are already huge cost overruns and nowhere near all the eligible have signed up. If mandated bankruptcy of not just Massachusetts but the entire US is your goal, then have at it. So much for Liberty, calling socialism capitalism is one nasty assed trick.
“Later, Romney told reporters the carrot-and-stick approach is necessary to get people to take responsibility for their own health care costs.”[Again, we require car insurance. But we don’t tell everyone which company to buy from. We do have minimum legal coverage limits.]
And why don’t you check what mandated car insurance has brought us. First, an awful lot of illegals have abused the system, as have crooks. Mandated insurance also has perverse side effects causing people to be LESS cautious about their driving (no problem if I don’t pay attention and hit someone, insurance will pay for it). How can you not see mandated car insurance is corporate welfare, it does not protect safe drivers, it is for the protection of BAD drivers!
“It’s a recognition that people have a responsibility if they can afford insurance to either buy insurance or pay their own way,” he said. “It’s the ultimate conservative view that people have the responsibility to care for themselves and not to look to government to care for them.”[I see no problem with people paying their own way. I don’t think they should get to have the state (ME) pay their health costs just because they walk in an emergency room and claim lack of insurance.]
So, it’s fine with you if we have a bloated socialistic system that takes away the Liberty of healthy people (and especially the younger generation) to subsidize hypochondriacs - just so you can hype your favorite RINO candidate. Well isn’t that just peachy.
I am not a Romney supporter. His conversion on the life issue is too recent for me. I'd like to see him develop a track record as a conservative supporter of life before I turn over that kind of responsibility to him.
I'm a Duncan Hunter first, and Fred Thompson second, supporter.
I think that driving is a privilege. It is not a right. If you are going to risk my property, then you should have to put up bond. That's all insurance is....a bonding on your part to insure any payments for damage to others' property is handled.
You should NOT be allowed to risk my property without some means of covering damages if your gamble is wrong.
How in the world do you NOT see this as a property issue???
Romney's health care proposal is similar. You should NOT get to dip into my wallet just because you wander into a hospital and demand service. THAT is what is socialistic, my friend. A requirement that you pay your own way at the hospital is based on the legitimate PROPERTY rights of the one whose money the government has heretofore been stealing.
Just because Romney has a good idea here doesn't make him "my rino candidate."
That was an illogical conclusion on your part.