[NavVet]

The fact that you refuse to respond to the arguments about the Romney / Hillary Health care model suggest Romney is your guy no matter what. You also point out to one small aspect of Romeny’s plan and suggest that mandatory insurance is the plan’s only provision. First of all, I don’t think the government should be forcing people to buy anything “for their own good”. A lot of people choose not to purchase insurance for a variety of good reasons. When we force people who wouldn’t otherwise purchase insurance to do so, we are telling people that the government knows better than the citizens what the best use of their money is. That is almost always a recipe for disaster.

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.

[ajay_kumar]

We are paying the entire cost of healthcare for EVERY non-insured person NOW. Who do you think pays for the free emergency roon the indigent receive? It is me, you, the tax payers and the people who have health insurance via higher premiums.

I don’t know of a single individual, legal or illegal who is refused emergency medical care.

I have a feeling it might cost LESS to treat this uninsured if they received treatment before their problem reaches emergency level.

So how exactly do you plan on improving the current situation?

As for votes in my household, we are leaning to Romney, and Thompson as 2nd choice. In November we will vote for whoever is the nominee.

[ajay_kumar]

And one more point, you are against the Romeycare, but you have not spelled out what is your plan or whose plan you are backing. If your plan is to keep the current system, and keep paying for all the non-insured via emergency care, then I will be forced to conclude you don’t have a plan to cut costs, which are rising at TWICE the inflation rate.