I fully agree that Romney is no fiscal conservative; he and Hillary are in agreement that wages should be garnished to pay for socialized health care.
I do disagree that McCain betrayed conservatives — he pretends (or at least pretended) to be a conservative and then routinely sided with Democrats on things like tax cuts, just for example.
It’s a pathetic group left.
I won’t vote for any of the remaining declared candidates; I just want them bloodied and in a stalemate come convention.
That or hope they all die in an asteroid crash.
Not quite. Mitt's plan requires folks to have health care, but doesn't require a government run system. Folks can choose among the private plans available, though the Commonwealth doesn't allow folks to buy only catastrophic plans and have large HSA's.
Most folks in MA still have plans with their employers. It was those who are self-employed, work for companies too small to offer plans, those who couldn't get private insurance, or just hadn't bought insurance in the past, because they couldn't afford it, or just didn't feel like buying it, who were affected by the requirement.
It actually worked well for us, because we were coming up on the end of the COBRA coverage, which cost us over $13K a year, and since hubby is self-employed, we would have had difficulty getting a plan without it being egregiously expensive. We got the high deductible plan for about $8400 a year and put some money in an HSA.