Posted on 08/20/2009 7:55:04 PM PDT by pissant
(CNN) -- If Washington wants health care reform with bipartisan support, experts say consider what former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney accomplished as governor in Democratic Massachusetts.
"You don't have to have a public option," Romney said. "You don't have to have the government getting into the insurance business to make it work."
Three years after enacting its own version of reform, Massachusetts now has near-universal coverage.
Taxpayer watchdogs say it's affordable.
"There is this widespread assumption, that is treated as fact, that it's breaking the bank in Massachusetts ... it's not breaking the bank at all." said Michael Widmer of Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.
And health care experts say it's popular.
"Seven in 10 people in the state support the program, and no more than one in 10 would repeal it." said Robert Blendon with the Harvard University School of Public Health.
Unlike Democratic proposals that would give Americans the choice of joining a government-run health care plan, Massachusetts has no public option. Instead, people in the state are required to buy private insurance, and the poor get subsidies.
The reform created the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, which is similar to a health insurance exchange.
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Oh, you just hate Mormons. / Mitten response.
Anyone here from Massachusetts?
They all moved the hell out of that commie state.
just as we must be racists for opposing obamacare
I don’t hate any mormons. I work with a bunch of them. Good folks. But if they manage to get this flip flopper nominated, I might start hatin ‘em.
LMAO! Yeah, that sure was some "accomplishment". Screwing up the state's health care system worse than a Democrat could is really quite a feather to put in your cap.
NO SLICK WILLARD — EVER !!
Just WOW. What MA are these folks talking about? Sure isn’t the one I know.
No we didn’t. A lot have, the rest of us are planning to! And can’t wait!
The latest today for our legislature..........the want to make ALL employers give PAID sick/vacation days, 7 or 9, forgot which. Apparently we haven’t driven enough business out of the state.
You bet.
How about a plan without a public option (say something like “Romney Care”) but with extensive tort reform like that in Texas?
Maybe a Texas/Mass compromise?
Lose the public option for good, get tort reform that is badly needed...
...Just a thought...
How about NOTHING. These dirty SOB’s “mandate” health care coverage then I say let the revolution start.
Oh but don't you know? If you expose Joseph Smith and his book or Morony for the fraud he was and the blaspheme it is means you hate Mormons by default.
NO. nothing with Willard’s name even remotely connected. Mandating insurance with high deductibles for folks who don’t need it and will never reach the deductibles, so they have to pay in 300. or so a month for NOTHING, (and most cannot afford it) should never be instituted. No mandates!! Mandates are taxes in disguise, and very exorbitant ones at that.
No biggie. All non-Catholics are blasphemers in my book, so it would get pretty silly to spend my time hatin on all of em.
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