His Universal Health Care Plan is being touted by Kennedy today, I don't call that conservative, not by a long shot.
His Health Care Plan is a private sector solution that requires people to buy insurance. Yes it puts Gov't money into buying insurance for those who can't pay but it is supposedly cheaper than using that same money to pay for emergency room care the way it is done now. Now, I'm skeptical too but it like the drug program was done by keeping the private sector engaged instead of just creating a Gov't bureaucracy like the Democrats surely would have done. What is the conservative approach? Close the hospitals? Allow them to refuse service? It ain't gonna happen.
"His Universal Health Care Plan is being touted by Kennedy today, I don't call that conservative, not by a long shot."
I suspect because that's because you haven't actually read the plan. I have. And while it's certainly not my ideal, it is a perfectly reasonable conservative solution for MASSACHUSETTS. This is what people fail to realize, likely because they don't live in Massachusetts. Massachusetts has a unique health care system, which hands away more then a billion in free care (in government expenses alone) each year. Romney's plan is at least partially aimed at eliminating the necessity of this spending. It does all sorts of other nice things. Making health care portable from job to job. Allowing individuals to purchase health care with pre-tax dollars. And his original plan was even more conservative, though the legislature overrode all of his vetoes.
And, in spite of already knowing this, some have conveniently forgotten it's a health plan nearly identical to Newt Gingrich's plan (as per his website) and touted by Newt as well.