"Individuals deemed able but unwilling to purchase health care could face fines of more than $1,000 a year by the state if they don't get insurance."
Disgusting. This is worse than a government health care system. This is a terrible violation of individual liberty and i'm disgusted that Romney supported it. I wasn't planning to support him before but I will now actively campaign against him if he runs for president. Were he to get the nomination (which he won't) by some fluke i'd stay home.
In the NH Union Leader today there was a story about the Massachusetts plan. Apparently, the AFL-CIO is dead set against it. The problem with the plan, according to them, is that it is too much like a plan conceived by one of the biggest enemies of liberalism. That enemy is Newt Gingrich. I found the following on the web:
'Nobody washes a rental car'
Managed Care sat down with the former speaker of the House of Representatives recently to discuss his ideas to overhaul health care and place more responsibility on the individual. Newt Gingrich advocates personal responsibility, the end of paper medical records, consumer-directed health care, and mandatory health insurance or a posted bond for everyone as the way to transform the American health care system.
Find it here:
http://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/0502/0502.gingrich.html
It seems the state legislature has gone crazy and became conservative and it means the Mitt is more in touch with conservatism than believed, or is it, the writing is on the wall and socialized care is around the corner, and these public servants aren't too dumb, and for once, they did the right thing?