2. Costs were not yet addressed in the Massachusetts health care reform so, of course, costs are rising. Just like the cost of everything else.
Lesson learned: When reforming health care do both steps at the same time -- increase coverage AND implement cost cutting measures simultaneously (not the easiest of tasks with a 85% liberal MA legislature --worse odds than the US Congress).
Bit paranoid me thinks...
Anyways...
Red, Red, Red, what are we going to do with you Romney guys...
Ok, I will play along.
Lets us, just for a minute, totally dismiss the idea that ANY government health care effort is an anathema to anyone person claiming Conservative credentials.
Furthermore let us take you 85% liberal legislature, something Mitt had to be aware of, and assume the either Mitt is the most politically naive SOB in thinking that they would not modify the plan or is the the most two faced politician out there and knew it and did not care because it fit his socialist agenda while at the same time letting him try and claim to be a conservative.
Let us dismiss all of that.
Let us assume, for a moment that your “it's not Romneycare because the plan was rejected yada yada yada” argument holds water (a mere thimble full, but I am willing to work with it)
I don't know if you were around a while back, but posted here several times was an opinion piece written by Mitt just 6 months ago in which he praised {RAISED his plan and took credit for it.
Yes he took credit for the plan that has come to be known by the man who planned it, introduced it and still supports it EVEN AFTER THE DEMOCRATS SUPPOSEDLY DMAMAGED IT!
ROMNEYcare is all his.
For a little lite reading I have provided even more recent article by Mitt from August where he sings the praised of his plan YET AGAIN, two years after your ‘rejection” argument. I also included several others.
Your thimble is empty, the water has evaporated. Anyone still trying to claim Mitt is a conservative, and more over trying to defend ROMNEYcare is either the most gullible Conservative on the planet, has not idea what the term means or has another agenda all together.
But please, keep trying, it is so much fun to watch his sycophants try and defend the plan, and him.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/07/mr-president-whats-the-rush.html
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/06/mitt-romney-health-care-gop-opinions-columnists-peter-robinson.html
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0809/Romney_defends_Mass_plan.html
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=689588
http://www.gop12.com/2009/09/romney-defends-health-plan-demus-on.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/19/romney.huckaby/index.html
For a plan that, as you say, not ROMNEYcare, he sure does take credit for it doesn't he.
Thanks for playing, but you are wrong, sorry.