[Balding_Eagle]

Romney did not propose a health insurance mandate. What he proposed was that those who still insisted on going without coverage in a reformed system demonstrate proof of their willingness and ability to pay their own bills by posting a bond or establishing an escrow account

It's about ending the free ride on taxpayers' dollars. It's about personal responsibility and free markets. Both, very conservative principles.

Certainly you are joking.

What you are proposing was one of the ideas Ronald Reagan exposed as a fraud when he engineered the demise of the United Soviet SOCIALIST Union.

[redgirlinabluestate]

Yeah, and the “shining city on the hill” doesn’t have millions and millions of more illegal aliens running around receiving free medical care (among other things) since the last granting of amnesty either. This is the real world though. Real problems call for real world solutions.