Posted on 07/10/2009 5:11:31 PM PDT by BfloGuy
The Massachusetts law, which was championed by former GOP Governor Mitt Romney, imposed an individual mandate, requiring nearly all residents to buy health insurance or else pay a penalty. (The exceptions are those who qualify for the state's public program.) This was supposed to cover everybody and save money too. We've written before about how costs have exploded, but it also turns out that consumers have other ideas.
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But not him.
And Romney’s talking how great it is and wants to promote it nationally. The man’s worthless, his policies are worthless, and he’s no conservative. I’ll stay home before I vote for him.
My son lives in Massachusetts and has said that because of the health care program in his state, his daughter, who has developmental issues has to wait six months to see an eye doctor at Children’s Hospital. He blames the delay directly to the Mass. Health Care.
Mitt a liberal with liberal ideas, that don’t work.....who would have thunk it.
FR Romney supporters? Don’t you mean trolls?
He saved the Olympics, the entire state of Utah, most of New England and all of Christmas in 1993.
His health care plan was great until the left messed it all up.
I know the folks in his home state of Utah Michigan Massachusetts California are proud to call him theirs and any one who cannot see that he has told us that he is the most conservative man in the running since Reagan is a fool.
(This is a test run of the MittBusters "Mittbot One" Mittbot simulator prototype, all feed back is welcome. THIS IS ONLY A TEST)
Yeah, he doesn’t suck....sort of.
And meanwhile, from just yesterday:
Romney Gives Mass. Health Reform An ‘A’ [praises Romney Care, says it’s time to go nationwide]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289329/posts
I mean people who continually post in support of a liberal loser on a conservative website.
These opportunistic psuedo-intellectual milquetoast trolls hope to subvert the conservative movement through deception and dilution.
They are known as Mittbots.
Maybe a few of them are hairy and live under bridges...down on their luck perhaps?
No, he sucks...
Go with your instincts on this one...
That's funny stuff. I actually did like him when he saved the Olympics. Unfortunately he started running for office after that and spoiled everything.
I thought he was great when he saved the Olympics. Then I realized that he saved it by getting a giant federal government bailout.
Then I realized that that was his approach, in general (unless he’s in federal government, at which point I suppose he might seek bailouts from the states and then claim credit for his “success”).
As someone who preferred Romney over some other choices like McCain, it looks like Romney is tagged with a failed attempt to compromise with the socialists on healthcare... kind of like the Dems in 2008 on Iraq, we will want people unsullied by previous compromises (eg like voting for TARP).
BUT THE MONEY QUOTE IS THIS: “The combination of guaranteed issue and community rating actively encourages parts of the healthier population to forgo coverage and thus blow up voluntary risk pools.”
... GOVERNMENT REGULATION IS WHAT IS FORCING COSTS INTO INSURANCE AND IN TURN RAISING PRICES AND CAUSING PEOPLE TO DROP OUT OF INSURANCE ALTOGETHER. THE “UNINSURED” IS A GOVT-CAUSED PROBLEM!
Whoever can articulate and explain this in a way that wins people over to the GOP should be our nominee.
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Just like Hotbottom the toothless.
When our plan was up for renewal in Dec. 2008, we signed up for the basic plan we'd had before, and which cost us about $9K. We were satisfied with it.
Our basic plan went up about $1K, which wasn't too bad, but then they forced a Prescription Drug plan on us that we didn't want, and that jacked up our cost another $4K!! Even with all the meds coming off a 'cardiac virus' that put me in the hospital for 5 days over Christmas of 2007, blood pressure meds all year, and a Cardiac Catheter Ablation the day before Thanksgiving in 2008, we never got NEAR using $2K worth of meds, much less $4K! We've been trying to cancel the Drug coverage, but to no avail.
The problem with govt. run health care is you have no choice in coverage; everyone who can, pays, and through the nose.
When this first went in, I speculated that some people might buy coverage just long enough to report on their tax returns that they had it (to avoid loss of the personal exemption and the fines), then just stop paying premiums. Sounds like the citizenry is more enterprising than I gave them credit for! ;-)
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