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.
You also suggest that the requirement to purchase health insurance addresses those who can afford insurance through a job or income and simply choose not to do so. Nothing could be further from the truth. Almost 100% of those people do in fact have insurance, and the ones that don’t are generally very young and have almost no health care needs.
What Romney’s plan does do, is give businesses incentive to structure their plans to exclude many workers from coverage and go on the government dole, thereby transferring this expense from the company and the worker, to the Mass Taxpayer. It also makes it very expensive for small businesses to start up, since many could not afford to pay the penalty for not being able to afford to provide coverage to any of their employees. Socialized medicine, no matter how you spin it, results in less care at greater expense. You would know the truth about Romney / Hillary Care if you moved beyond your one talking point and actually researched the issue. This is not difficult to understand. Indeed, Romney is busy assuring the voters that he wouldn’t impose this system on the rest of the country. If you would put down the kool aid for a minute, the truth about Romney care is easy to see.