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In principle, I don’t think the government should mandate the purchase of anything. But look where we are. People think that “healthcare” should be a right.

I’ve had that healthcare right in the world’s 6th largest economy. I believe that it was Yaelle who told me that she had it in Switzerland. If it was Yaelle, we agreed. Gov’t healthcare is the pits.

How about housing? If healthcare is a right, surely housing is, too. Everybody else, get ready to defray the costs of my mortgage.

In an environment such as this, every now and again, someone tries to do something. Rep. Bill Arthur gave us HSAs. Romney gave MA residents RomneyCare as you call it. Maybe it has problems. I think, from what I’ve heard him say in debates, that he wants there to be more choices in healthcare, a more market-driven system. Good!

But if a ‘rat governor had forced RomneyCare on a state, I don’t know about other conservatives, this one would say, “Geez! A ‘rat with an idea? How can that possibly be?”