“In 2005, Gov. Romney proposed and in 2006 signed into law an under-funded universal health care plan, including a mandate that all individuals lacking it buy health insurance, substantially similar to Hillary Clinton’s proposed plan. On the stump in 2007, Romney reversed and now opposes his own plan and its central feature, the insurance mandate.”
I wonder how many people in Mass that considered starting small businesses, either chose not to, or chose to move to another state where the government wouldn’t use the police power of the state to force them to provide a benefit they couldn’t afford. The truly poor already have Medicaid, Mitt’s plan is just an expansion of the Nanny State pandering to the near socialists voters in Mass. Now that Romney needs to pander to a different set of voters, he is disavowing his own plan, even as you defend it.
http://rockthetruth.blogspot.com/2007/12/romneys-universal-healthcare-loopholes.html
Like I said, if those who can afford healthcare through a job or income choose not buy an insurance plan, their bills go unpaid when they get seriously sick.
Those bills are then paid by you and me who carry health insurance in the form of higher premiums.
I don’t see how this is difficult to understand unless you have a built in bias against Romney.